A Mind at Play

✍ Scribed by Soni, Jimmy

• Book ID: 109501950
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476766683

✦ Synopsis

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon --the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.
Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, and a digital pioneer. He constructed a fleet of customized unicycles and a flamethrowing trumpet, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called "the Magna Carta of the Information Age." His discoveries would lead contemporaries to compare him to Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. His work anticipated by decades the world we'd be living in today--and gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.

In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman reveal Claude Shannon's full story...