The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution

the man who invented 0 and 1

he deserves more recognition for sure

Shannon wrote about communication, a capacity to convey info, but not information as meaning. Shannon entropy measures the least redundancy in a message that will successfully communicate its meaning. Entropy is ambiguity. Redundancy is certainty.

C. E. Shannon should haven been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics. What a shame!

depressing...we all get old and disintegrate...what's there to talk about here?

He kind of looks like Oppenheimer

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Claude Shannon was not only a Mathematician but was an Electrical Engineer as well.

His Electrical Engineering Master's thesis paved the way for the Information age.

Together with Ed Thorpe he also devised the first portable computer, to predict the outcome of a roulette wheel. They had to give up when the gambling mob threatened to hurt them, since they were successful

Don't forget about Akira Nakashima, whose seminal papers on switching circuit theory (1934-1936) and Boolean algebra helped pave the way for modern information theory.

Being an electric engineer he also took a course in philosophy thats where he got the idea of encoding everything in 1s and 0s. There is also a ted talk referenced about him by david epstein. It's very interesting.

How is he not mentioned anywhere in the books is beyond me, what a legend.

Look at your guest when they're talking it's distracting and disrespectful

All of these tech billionaires nowadays built their empires on top of Shannon's brilliant ideas.

When I was in college (electrical engineering degree), one of my lecturer treated "Mathematical Theory of Communication" by Shannon as if it was a kind of holy book or something and forced us to read it.

Shannons intuitive leap in realizing 0 and 1 can represent logic and mathematics was unique. In an infinite variable system their is a distinct pattern. Consider binomial therorem aka pascals triangle. It is well known that the fibonacci sequence drops out in palindromic fashion. In an infinite nomial system there is a pattern : infinite zeroes preceding 0,1,1,2,4,...2^n to infinity. If you write out the octonomial expansion you will see that pascals sequence is in the diagonal. This is true for higher nomial expansions as well, but it does not become apparent.

But he is a not black?

Thank you for the video.

I studied Shannon -Fano data compression algorithm in university in 1995. I had no idea the man was still alive at the time.

Sehr gut

US Zuse -:)

Sehr gut

Harry Nyquist next.

Shannon code❤

i'm sorry, he grew up WHERE???

Not (inverter) symbol is not quite right...

One of the greatest minds of the 20th century yet barely known outside the technical world… sounds like that’s how he wanted it. Great bio sketch!

This dude is the GOAT!

That is terribly sad. I despise alzheimer's.

Way more important than Einstein

Great vid. While were on the subject, may I suggest one on Wiener-McCullogh-Pitts?

GJ👍, very factual video.🤓

We knew what a genius Shannon was through his work. Finally, got to know a bit more about him. Thank you.

thank you, enjoyed that, learnt more, well done.

One of the smartest men ever, thank you Shannon.

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i think i have a crush on the woman speaking in this video 😍😍😘

Estudei o livro dele na graduação - baita obra

😂 i dont think he thought it was over hyped he was just smart and didnt want to majorana or to tesla

videos are all great, except the part you show your face, please remove your face

and the name stolen by Anthropic for it's AI model Claude, which is most intelligent ai model up to date

Thank you❤

Did she just say he was born in Gaylord!??

very coincidentally I had watched an Oxford’s Third Year Mathematics Lecture this afternoon— It’s so great that people are able to come up with such great things. I will never stop being amazed at how intelligent we were capable of— and hopefully, we will be capable of even more things

Unlike Einstein, who was long dead before his work in quantum mechanics was applied in things that ain't involved in making nukes, Shannon was actually alive when digital computers have begun to become part of common people's everyday lives. It's a damn shame that for someone who had such a brilliant mind, he could no longer appreciate just how much the derivations of his work have moved past being just government super machines or geek toys, how much impact his work have made in shaping the information technology landscape as we know it today, when he was still alive in a wild future that he wasn't able to conceive in his youth.

Nice video about a brilliant mind. I read Shannon's information paper, I don't understood everything tbh, but something it is always missed is that the Entropy characterization of information it was not realized by Shannon itself, but instead by R. V. L. Hartley in the paper "Transmission of Information" (1928), cited in the first page of Shannon's paper, and a must read if you finally want to have an intuitive understanding of what Entropy really means on the Information theory scope