![]() ![]() ![]() Shannon created what is now called information theory, Gleick tells Robert Siegel on All Things Considered: Gleick's book spans centuries and geographic locations, but one person stays throughout the story for almost 400 pages: Claude Shannon, an engineer and mathematician who worked at Bell Labs in the mid-20th century. The Information, written by James Gleick, covers nearly everything - jungle drums, language, Morse code, telegraphy, telephony, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, genetics and more - as it relates to information, which he describes as the "fundamental core of things." Information theory can now be seen as the overarching concept for our times, describing how scientists in many disciplines see a common thread to their work. ![]()
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