The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution

Claude Shannon is the father of Information Theory. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

I highly recommend Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman’s biography called A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age https://a.co/d/5sSLUIL

Chapters:
00:00 How Computers Understand 1s and 0s
0:35 Growing Up in Michigan
1:20 Boolean Logic: The Language of Computers
1:57 Building Circuits with Math
3:09 Working on the Differential Analyzer at MIT
4:15 The 1937 Master’s Thesis That Changed the World
5:15 Dabbling in Genetics
6:06 Building War Machines (SIGSALY)
7:25 Shannon Bell Labs
8:22 The Birth of Information Theory (1948 Paper)
9:07 Becoming a Celebrity Scientist
10:20 Building Theseus, an Electronic Mouse That Learned
11:01 Chess and Artificial Intelligence
11:28 Juggling, Stocks, and Curiosity
11:54 The Final Years: A Mind Lost to Alzheimer’s
13:39 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant

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