Tinker, Juggler, Mathematician Guy: Claude Shannon Doodled by Google

Google's doodles, just like its profound search box, have been a constant source of rich and curious information for quite some time. And they are already celebrated much in the media.

Still, I found the most recent one, on a guy called Claude Shannon, quite interesting not only to note but to write a blog post as well. And while the doodles have of late been slipping in quality and creativity, this one seems to have put the shine back: what with a cute cartoon of Claude juggling zeroes and ones bang in the middle of the letters that make up Google, dissecting it into GOO and GLE.

I also felt embarrassed, nay ashamed, that I had to refer to the pioneer of information theory and unarguably a great mathematical genius, as "a guy called..." in the above para. Time.com headlined its piece on Shannon as  The Juggling Unicyclist Who Pedaled Us Into the Digital Age .

Now, that's indeed quite a fitting and interestingly written tribute!

Let's look at how some of the other media sites and scientific portals describe him in their articles (post- as well as pre-doodle celebrating his birth centenary):

Without Shannon's information theory there would have been no internet (The Guardian)

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (IEEE Spectrum)

Claude Shannon: Reluctant Father of the Digital Age (MIT Technology Review)

Celebration time for Gaylord's Shannon, who 'changed the course of human history' (PetoskeyNews.com)

Keep doodling, Google!