This course studies numbers, switching (Boolean) algebra, switching functions, and combinational circuits. Number systems and conversion. Binary codes. Switching algebra. Algebraic simplification of ...

How Boolean algebra went from an abstract mathematical idea to the basis of the modern computer.

Jérôme Bolte, Edouard Pauwels, Majorization-Minimization Procedures and Convergence of SQP Methods for Semi-Algebraic and Tame Programs, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (May 2016), ...