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Claude Shannon

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American mathematician and information theorist

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Why Is Claude Shannon Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory". He is credited alongside George Boole for laying the foundations of the Information Age.

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Claude Shannon's Published Works

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