
1916–2001 · United States
Claude Shannon
“Information is the resolution of uncertainty.”
Their life
His master's thesis made circuits do logic; his 1948 paper invented information theory — the bit, channel capacity, the mathematics under every phone, file, and message since. Then he built juggling robots and unicycled through Bell Labs.
Books about Claude
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