Claude Shannon: The Man Who Invented Information

Claude Shannon: The Man Who Invented Information is a sweeping intellectual biography of the quiet genius who made the digital age possible yet remained largely invisible to it. Written in a narrative style that blends storytelling with deep ideas this book follows Shannon from his curious childhood in Michigan to his groundbreaking work at MIT and Bell Labs where he transformed logic into machinery and uncertainty into mathematics. At the center of the story is a radical insight that would...