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Claude Shannon
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Logic & Theory of Computation · Probability & Statistics · Algebra & Number Theory

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I founded information theory and digital logic

I treat engineering problems as questions of science: once information can be measured, it can be designed for.

My work ran from MIT to Bell Labs and back to MIT: logic circuits, wartime cryptography, information theory, and early research on machines that learn and play chess.

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Claude Shannon

I am a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor. My research turned switching circuits into logic and communication into a mathematical science of information.

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  1. Logic & Theory of Computation

    4 cards with evidence

    • I turned Boolean logic into switching circuits
    • I founded information theory and digital logic
    • I proved the one-time pad cannot be broken

  2. Probability & Statistics

    3 cards with evidence

    • I warned my own field off the bandwagon
    • I founded information theory and digital logic
    • I measured information and founded a new science

  3. Games & Puzzles

    2 cards with evidence

    • I estimated the chess game tree at about 10^120
    • How I programmed a computer to play chess

  4. Computer Science & Early Computers

    2 cards with evidence

    • I designed the Minivac 601 to teach computing
    • I built Theseus, a maze-learning mechanical mouse

  5. Signals & Telecommunications

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    • I modeled anti-aircraft fire control as signal and noise
    • I turned Boolean logic into switching circuits