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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Claude Shannon, Gregory Chaitin, Andrey Kolmogorov, David A. Huffman, Richard Hamming, Harry Nyquist, Elwyn Berlekamp, Ray Solomonoff, I. J. Good, Edward Kofler, Edgar Gilbert, Henry Landau, R. C. Bose, Claude Berrou, Robert G. Gallager, David J. C. MacKay, Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, Rolf Landauer, Ralph Hartley, Chris Wallace, Sergio Verd, Solomon W. Golomb, Kenneth Harwood, David Wheeler, Jacob Ziv, Leonid Levin, Ari Trachtenberg, Norman Abramson, Abraham Lempel, Robert M. Gray, Doug Cutting, David Slepian, Dave Forney, Irving S. Reed, James Duff Brown, Robert Fano, Kenneth Garside, Mark Semenovich Pinsker, Rudolf Ahlswede, Michael Luby, James Massey, Mark Burgess, Aaron D. Wyner, Abdul Jerri, Michele Mosca, Marcel J. E. Golay, Jack Keil Wolf, Jorma Rissanen, John Wozencraft, Imre Csisz r, Henry O. Pollak, Joachim Hagenauer, Gustave Solomon, A.J. Han Vinck, Toby Berger, Vladimir Levenshtein, Peter Franaszek, Hideki Imai, Jim K. Omura, Punya Thitimajshima, Gottfried Ungerboeck, Tadao Kasami, Peter Elias, Tom Stonier, William Lucas Root, Robert McEliece, Te Sun Han, Terry Welch, Alain Glavieux, Lloyd R. Welch. Excerpt: Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis durin...
