Claude Shannon was a rare individual. He never won a Nobel Prize, and was not a well-known scholar like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but with a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age, making central contributions to math, science & engineering. This paper was written more than 70 years ago.

Who was Claude Shannon? How did he make the impact to the future of our time?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

How Claude Shannon Invented the Future

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

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James Gleick's "The Information" introduced me to the fascinating Mr. Shannon a few years back. It's a name anybody working with computers should know; he was an amazing guy!

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Shannon's biography "a mind at play", by Soni and Goodman, is a good read