This essay analyzes the history of the development of Boolean models of electric circuits and relay circuits by Akira Nakashima, Claude E. Shannon, and Viktor Ivanovich Shestakov during the 1930s. The author examines in detail the question of priority of this discovery and shows that the answer depends on which criteria are used to evaluate priority - publication dates, scientific novelty, and so forth. The essay examines the particular approaches of each scientist and the results they achieved, the factors that influenced the scientific community's recognition or non-recognition of Nakashima, Shannon, and Shestakov's respective work, and the reaction of each of them to such turns of fate.
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