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A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age / Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.

by Soni, Jimmy.

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Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001.

Information theory.

Information science -- History

Digital communications -- History.

Cryptography -- United States -- History.

Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.

Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.

9781476766683 (hc.)

9781476766690 (pbk.)

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

xv, 366 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346) and index.

Gaylord -- Ann Arbor -- The room-sized brain -- MIT -- A decidedly unconventional type of youngster -- Cold Spring Harbor -- The labs -- Princeton -- Fire control -- A six-day workweek -- The unspeakable system -- Turing -- Manhattan -- The utter dark -- From intelligence to information -- The bomb -- Building a bandwagon -- Mathematical intentions, honorable and otherwise -- Wiener -- A transformative year -- TMI -- "We urgently need the assistance of Dr. Claude E. Shannon" -- The man-machines -- The game of kings -- Constructive dissatisfaction -- Professor Shannon -- Inside information -- A gadgeteer's paradise -- Peculiar motions -- Kyoto -- The illness -- Aftershocks.

"The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon - the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed a fleet of customized unicycles and a flamethrowing trumpet, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called 'the Magna Carta of the Information Age.' His discoveries would lead contemporaries to compare him to Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. His work anticipated by decades the world we'd be living in today - and gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass. The story of a small-town Michigan boy whose career stretched from the era of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of Apple. The story of the origins of our digital world in the tunnels of MIT and the 'idea factory' of Bell Labs, in the 'scientists' war' with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon's collaborators and rivals, thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Vannevar Bush, and Norbert Wiener. And it's the story of Shannon's life as an often reclusive, always playful genius. This biography brings this singular innovator and creative genius to life."--Provided by publisher.

"Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 - 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory" for his landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in 1948. He is, perhaps, equally well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his fundamental work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications"--From wikipedia.org website.

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