alleryStart learning →Claude Shannon's 1937 thesis applied which branch of maths to switching circuits?
APlane geometry
BBoolean algebra
CBasic calculus
DMensuration
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Boolean algebra
Shannon used Boolean algebra to analyse switching circuits, the base of electronic digital computers.
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