Gardner M. Logic Machines and Diagrams

McGraw-Hill, 1958. - 157 p.In 1958, M. Gardner published Logic Machines and Diagrams, a book based on one of his articles in Scientific American. The book chronicled attempts by such familiar names as John Venn and Lewis Carroll to represent logical relationships and operations graphically, as well as forays by the likes of Charles Stanhope and Allan Marquand into the mechanization of logical manipulations. Making machines capable of doing logic, Richards noted, was crucial for the eventual development of computers.