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robertmason96's review against another edition
3.0
I would rate this higher if it fixed it's focus. Throughout it wants to be a scientific biography of the work that connects Shannon and Boole - and at times the connection is really shoe horned in despite a tenuous connection - but it is not really a scientific biography. If you read it as a book building up basic ideas for computers from the abstract logical Boolean algebra as applied to circuitry by Shannon then it is a really enjoyable book, with small biographies of the two mathematicians mentioned. It is a story of the ideas not the men who had them.
bakudreamer's review against another edition
Didn't read all of it, too technical, just skimmed it
shimizee's review against another edition
4.0
I found unreadable the last chapter on quantum computing but before that the book gives a great insight on Boole's and Shannon's contributions
stephang18's review
4.0
Two chapter-length biographies of George Boole and Claude Shannon, then the rest of the book is devoted to Boolean logic and algebra at a medium level of difficulty. Only for true fans.
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