Mathematician:Claude Elwood Shannon

Mathematician
American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

Noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", that he published in 1948.

Produced the first effective design for a chess-playing computer.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 30 April 1916 in Gaylord, Michigan, USA
 * Died: 24 February 2001 in Medford, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Shannon Number
 * Shannon's Maxim
 * Shannon's Theorem

Publications

 * 1940: A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
 * 1941: Mathematical theory of the differential analyzer
 * 1948: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
 * 1949: Communication theory of secrecy systems