George Spencer Brown's "Design with the NOR": With Related Essays in Bloomington, MN

George Spencer Brown, a polymath and author of
Laws of Form
, brought together mathematics, electronics, engineering and philosophy to form an unlikely bond.
This book investigates
Design with NOR
, the title of the yet unpublished 1961 typescript by Spencer Brown. The typescript formed through the author's experiences as technical engineer and developer of a new form of switching algebra for Mullard Equipment Ltd., a British manufacturer of electronic components, and is published here for the first time.
Related essays contextualise the typescript drawing on a variety backgrounds from mathematics and engineering to philosophy and sociology, and thus invite readers to a reverse-engineering of both the form and its laws.