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Shannon’s Information Theory

Era: Early Theory · 1930s–1950s

Claude Shannon published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", laying the foundation for information theory. Concepts like entropy, coding, and information quantity became core tools for understanding data and processing information.

Claude Shannon (1916–2001)

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  1. A Mathematical Theory of Communication

    Bell System Technical Journal archive · Source type: paper

    Shannon’s 1948 paper defines information entropy and channel capacity.

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