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Claude Shannon: American Genius

Author : J. Rowland Higgins

Published in: Sampling: Theory and Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Claude Shannon was born one hundred years ago. This essay is a salute to his genius.

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Footnotes
1
In his book: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. (The World as Will and Representation, Tr. R.B. Haldane).
 
2
Civilization, a personal view, Penguin Books, 1969, p. 105.
 
3
The quotation is from an interview: Anthony Liversidge, “Profile of Claude Shannon,” Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers, edited by N. J. A. Sloan, Aaron D. Wyner (IEEE, 1993).
 
4
His source is found in the work of J. M. Whittaker from the middle 1930s.
 
5
“Claude E. Shannon: A retrospective on his life, work and impact.” IEEE Trans. Info. Th., 47, 2001.
 
6
Bell System Tech J., 27, pp. 379–423, 623–656, 1948.
 
7
Found in a footnote to “The idea factory: the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation,” The Penguin Press, 2012, by Jon Gertner.
 
8
The Logician and the Engineer How George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age. Princeton University Press, 2013.
 
9
“Communication theory of secrecy systems,” BSTJ, 1949.
 
10
See Sergei N. Molotkov, “Quantum cryptography” and V.A.’s one-time key and sampling theorems.
 
11
The mouse was called Theseus, a name borrowed appropriately from Greek mythology.
 
12
One of the earliest scientific journals, founded by Alexander Tulloch in 1797.
 
13
In 1965 Shannon met the then world chess champion M.M. Botvinnik at a conference in Moscow. Botvinnik had been three times world-champion and was a pioneer of computerized chess-playing programs. Information about this meeting seems hard to come by, but it is known that they discussed chess and its computerization. More can be found it Botvinnik’s book: Computers, chess and long-range planning, Heidelberg Science Library, 1970, Springer, Translator’s preface.
 
14
“Communication in the presence of noise,” Proc. IRE, 37, 1949, pp. 10–21.
 
15
B.M. Oliver, J.R. Pierce and C.E. Shannon, “The Philosophy of PCM,” Proc. IRE, 36, 1948, pp. 1324–1331.
 
Metadata
Title
Claude Shannon: American Genius
Author
J. Rowland Higgins
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Sampling: Theory and Applications

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-36290-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-36291-1

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36291-1_1

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