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30.07.2010 Claude Elwood Shannon

Claude Shannon

Outside of his academic pursuits, Shannon was interested in juggling, unicycling, and chess. He also invented many devices, including rocket-powered flying discs, a motorized pogo stick, and a flame-throwing trumpet.

Read: Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication – 1948

Graphical representation of the constraints on telegraph symbols

Graphical representation of the constraints on telegraph symbols

03.11.2009 David Blackwell

As a schoolboy, Blackwell did not care for algebra and trigonometryDavid Blackwell

“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been. I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing.”