A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

David Wineberg said Omnivorous Curiosity. For years, I have been reading references to Claude Shannon because of his involvement in so many critical developments in science, communications, Bell Labs, and even the stock market. About his sense of humor or his riding a unicycle through Bell Labs – while juggling (a favorite hobby). And about his groundbreaking, earth-shaking realization that all communication, from voice to music to documents to photos – is all data and could be treated the same way. Without this insight, I could not post this review today. But there was no way to get my. The Man Who Made It All Possible Andy in Washington If you are reading this on any sort of electronic gadget, thank Claude Shannon. Though never as famous as some of his colleagues, Shannon was responsible for the mathematics and logic that made modern electronics possible. He was, like many geniuses, somewhat of an aloof and difficult character, and didn’t go out of his way to seek publicity.=== The Good Stuff ===* I don’t suppose there is any such thing as an “intimate portrait” of Claude Shannon. He simply wasn’t that type of man. Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman do about as credib. A brilliant mind I needed to meet Despite likely being the most brilliant man you've never heard of with the most comprehensive unknown impact on the advancement of technology, Claude Shannon, star of Jimmie Sonni and Rob Goodman's A Mind at Play (Simon and Schuster 2017), was by all accounts a normal kid through high school and college. Sure, he could send Morse code with his body (you'll have to read the book to see how that's accomplished) and he had a passion for solving complex math problems most people couldn't even read, but that changed when he was discovered by a string of men

He is a graduate of Duke University. . He has written for Slate, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. With Rob Goodman, he is the coauthor of Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar and A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.Rob Goodman is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and a former congressional speechwriter. His scholarly work has appeared in
This is biography as it should be, but seldom is.” (Edward Dolnick, author of The Clockwork Universe )“A welcome and inspiring account of a largely unsung hero—unsung because, the authors suggest, he accomplished something so fundamental that it's difficult to imagine a world without it.”  (Kirkus Reviews)“A key figure in the development of digital technology has his achievements, if not his personality, burnished in this enlightening biography. In this veritable labor of love by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, one has on offer an enthralling and beautifully rendered portrait of Claude Shannon, the mathematician, the engineer, the inventor, the tinkerer, and, above all, the enigmatic man who became the intellectual father of the vital lifeblood of our age: information.” (Professor Sergio Verdu, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. With access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and creative genius to life.. It’s the story of a small-town Michigan boy whose career stretched from the era of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of Apple. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called “the Magna Carta of the Information Age.” His discoveries would lead contemporaries to compare him to Al