From communication networks to fuzzy sets

In 1931 and 1935, Ernst Adolph Guillemin, professor of electrical engineering at Masachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published the two volumes of his book “Communication Networks”. In that time telephone-, telegraph- and radio networks used electricity in communication. In the course of this work electrical engineers become aware that higher mathematics was necessary to construct better communication technique. Since the 1920s circuit theory and electrical filter theory have been developed. In the 1930s Guillemin recognized the challenge to network theory including the design of electromagnetic wave filters and related networks. Norbert Wiener wrote in his 1949 article on A New Concept of Communication Engineering just as Guillemin wrote his books for “communication engineers”. In 1944 Lotfi Zadeh, Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Teheran in Iran, came to the USA. In 1946 he got his Master of Science degree at MIT, where Guillemin wa...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: EUSFLAT
• Authors: Rudolf Seising
• Keywords: Electrical Engineering, EUSFLAT 2003, EUSFLAT 2007, Network Theory, Theory