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, 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

Results named for Claude Elwood Shannon can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Claude Elwood Shannon can be found here.

Publications

• 1938: A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Vol. 57, no. 12: 713 – 723)
• 1941: Mathematical theory of the differential analyzer
• 1948: A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Bell System Technical Journal Vol. 27, no. 3: 379 – 423)
• 1948: A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Bell System Technical Journal Vol. 27, no. 4: 623 – 666)
• 1949: The Mathematical Theory of Communication (book length expansion of A Mathematical Theory of Communication)
• 1949: Communication theory of secrecy systems

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Claude Elwood Shannon": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916-2001)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916-2001)