Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers

by Claude Shannon (Editor), Aaron D. Wyner (Editor), N.J.A. Sloane (Editor)

This important book, the first published collection of papers by Claude E. Shannon, is a fascinating guide to all of the published articles from this world-renowned inventor, tinkerer, puzzle-solver, prankster, and father of information theory. Includes his seminal article THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION.

Genres: Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Technology, Nonfiction

924 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 1993

About the author

Claude Elwood Shannon, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940; M.S. Electrical Engineering, MIT, 1937; B.S., Electrical Engineering & Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1936), was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer often referred to as "the father of information theory." His Master's Thesis, which went largely unappreciated for years, demonstrated that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical, numerical relationship, and thereby solve any problem solvable by Boolean algebra; this eventually provided the underpinning for all digital computing.

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