(30. 4. 1916 Petoskey, Michigan, US – 24. 2. 2001 Medford, Massachusetts, US)
American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory”
PhD Thesis “An algebra for theoretical genetics “Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1940,
Advisor F.L. Hitchcock
Researcher, Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, US
Collaborator of Fano
Credit, Wikipedia. Available online http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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