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Claude Shannon
The father of the information age: a master's thesis that turned logic into circuits, the 1948 paper that defined the bit, entropy and channel capacity, wartime cryptography, juggling machines, and a wearable computer for beating roulette.
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Prereqs: Logarithms; Probability rules; Turing. Next: John Nash. Sources: Shannon, 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' (1948); Soni & Goodman's *A Mind at Play* (2017); UCTV documentary *Claude Shannon: Father of the Information Age*.Next: 1. Life