Claude Shannon
American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer, widely regarded as the father of information theory. His 1948 work established the mathematical foundations of digital communication and data compression; he also pioneered digital circuit design using Boolean algebra and worked at Bell Labs and MIT.
Books
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1. The Mathematical Theory Of Communication
A foundational exposition of information theory that defines entropy as a quantitative measure of information and models communication with sources, encoders, channels, and decoders. It establishes limits for compression and transmission, including channel capacity, and shows that reliable communication over noisy channels is possible below this threshold through suitable coding. The work examines redundancy, coding efficiency, and trade-offs among rate, noise, and bandwidth, connecting abstract results to practical systems and even natural language.
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