Claude Shannon and “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”
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Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in the town of Gaylord, Michigan. As Gallager describes it, he “led a normal happy childhood with little indication of his budding genius” [1]. Friendly, but not-outgoing, he showed a curiosity for how things worked. He attended public high school and graduated when he was sixteen, and earned his Bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1936. His interest in Boolean algebra began during college, and it was during college that Shannon says he probably first read Hartley’s 1928 paper titled “Transmission of Information” [3] which he says had “an important influence” on his life [6].
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