... order to represent numbers and their relationships. To eliminate the bulkiness of Vannevar's calculator, a professor (John V. Atanasoff) and his graduate student (Clifford Berry) envisioned an all-electronic computer that applied Boolean Algebra to computer circuitry. This approach would not have existed if it wasn't for work done by George Boole (1815 - 1864) who clarified the binary system of ... algebra, which stated that any mathematical equations could be stated simply as either true or false. By extending this concept to electronic circuits in the form of on or off, Atanasoff ......

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