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With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life. Please try again. The author could have at least given his achievements equal billing. Please call before going to store. También es cierto que no era tarea fácil.
Even with this challenge the author managed to write a good biography, but it felt a bit padded at places (mostly in the first half of the book).A good biography of an overlooked but seminal figure of physics and mathematics, Claude Shannon.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2017
Shannon was an introvert but also a playful wiseguy in his work but mostly avoided the limelight. He made fundamental discoveries linking Boolean logic and what physical circuits could handle. Not only that, I learned some background history about information theory in the role of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley. When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Bio on an important person in the history of information theory With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life. Shannon drew remarkable connections between logic, mathematics, philosophy and his passion for mechanics and tinkering. A Mind At Play begins to fill this yawning gap (and it seems a documentary is finally in the works as well).Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2019 Share.
Anytime you use a computer or device that communicates with another device, information flows between them in the form of bits and bytes.
Luckily in his older age he let his eccentricities loose and provided us with quite a number of amusing anecdotes. I really regret not buying the hard copy. 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.
But there's one of the greats who may conjure up nothing more than a name - Claude Shannon.
The digital world of today is something I truly wish he could have witnessed.If you are familiar with the history of computing, there are a few names that you'll know well enough biographically to turn them into real people. Brilliant sources and historical references.
Nice biography of a curious character. Enter the terms you wish to search for. The Mathematical Theory of Communication Scientists have various motives for doing what they do. Some, like Newton, are possessed by a need to explain the working of the universe to themselves. Enjoyable and moderately paced biography.
Enjoyed his lecture attended by Einstein in pursuit of tea and cookies at Princeton. 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, 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.
For he was important enough to the world of mathematics, communications, computer science and engineering to deserve a biography but has led a quiet and private life to make the job of documenting his life quite difficult.
The writing style is engaging and informative. In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Soni and Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. He has written for Richard Feynman certainly fell into that category, judging from his writings on the subject.
Shannon was an introvert but also a playful wiseguy in his work but mostly avoided the limelight.
He was such a singular man that it would be impossible to get deep into his psyche or psychology, though there are some reasonable inferences. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Fantastic book, well worth a place in your bookshelf. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I learned things.Someone of the level of Einstein and Newton. —Nature "A Mind at Play shows us that you don't need to be a genius to learn from a genius. Not just this book tells the story of Shanon's work, it also presents a brief history of information science itself in a very enjoyable way.What do unicycles, flaming trumpets, and a robotic, labyrinth-solving mouse named Theseus have to do with computers?
With simple worksheets, exercises, and actionable steps that WORK, you can make this part of your routine, and completely "change your mindset" without feeling like you're starting from square one.
I did graduate study at MIT, and worked under people mentioned in the book.
His voice made it so hard for me to listen to, and I never felt like he was modulating his tone appropriately so it was idk kinda tough. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
What a journey this has been. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn If you want to know about Claude Shannon who wrote a seminal article on information theory in 1948 this is a great book.