This biography of Claude Shannon chronicles the life and accomplishments of the pioneering American mathematician, engineer, and cryptographer. Born in 1916 in Michigan, Shannon was a child prodigy who was accepted into the University of Michigan at the age of 16. After graduating with a degree
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.