Claude E Shannon: Collected Papers
By, Shannon, Claude E Ed.
Publisher: IEEE Press
Class No.: 621.382 SHA
Accession No.: 004796
Year: 1993
Pages: 924 p.

Of the week: 19th Mar. to 25th Mar., 2007

This important book, the first published collection of papers by Claude E. Shannon, is a fascinating guide to all of the published articles from this world-renowned inventor, tinkerer, puzzle-solver, prankster, and father of information theory. Includes his seminal article The Mathematical Theory of Communication.

Claude E. Shannon is one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He is the creator of modern information and communication theory, and an early and important contributor to the theory of computing. His pioneering work on computer chess and on "mice" that learn the path through a maze are among the earliest contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

This collection contains all of Claude Elwood Shannon’s published works, as well as many that have never before been published. The published papers include his classic papers on information theory and switching theory. Among the unpublished works are his once-secret war-time reports, his Ph.D. thesis on population genetics, unpublished Bell Labs memoranda, and a paper on the theory of juggling.