Portrait of Claude Shannon
. Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen / Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), photo 3807. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany; VRT ticket 2008042410024381., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer, widely recognized as the "father of information theory." He made groundbreaking contributions to the field of digital circuit design theory and telecommunications, particularly through his seminal 1948 paper titled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
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