Claude Shannon does not have the same name recognition as Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, Alexander Bell, Bill Gates, or Doyle Brunson, but his work had an impact that rivaled each of these famous men. Shannon was a mathematician, an electrical engineer, and a cryptographer is famous in his field as the father of information theory. However, he also helped usher in the modern computer age, and used his mathematical knowledge to make money in Vegas playing blackjack, things that make him relevant to a modern society obsessed with computers and with gambling. In other words, Claude Shannon was a cool scientist before much of America realized that scientists could be cool. Shannon always had tremendous promise as a scientist, and he realized that promise early in life. He was born April 30, 1916, and he spent much of his young life focused on attaining an education. He had an early interest in math and science, and entered college in 1932. He graduated in 1936 with two bachelor's degrees, one in electrical engineering and one in mathematics. By the age of 21, he was a master's student at MIT. It was during that time that he wrote a thesis on the electrical application of Boolean algebra. This application had an influence...
It might even be that Shannon's application made the advent of personal computers possible. William Poundstone referred to Shannon's thesis as the most important master's thesis of all time, reiterating a similar statement made by Harvard University's Howard Gardner (2005). In fact, the engineering community, as a whole, seemed to regard Shannon's thesis as groundbreaking; he earned the Alfred Noble American Institute of American Engineers Award for it.Claude Shannon is an American mathematical engineer and is considered "the father of information theory" (Cosmo Learning 2010). Shannon was born in the city of Gaylord, Michigan on April 30, 196 (NY 2011). Gaylord was a small town of approximately 3,000 individuals and his father was the town judge; his mother was the principal at the local town high school (NYU 2011). His mathematical and scientific ability did not necessarily
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