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Didn't know Shannon was a figurehead in QM, but then again I hardly know any quantum mechanics - mind summarizing his contributions to the field for a lay perso
by stuxnet79 10y ago
Didn't know Shannon was a figurehead in QM, but then again I hardly know any quantum mechanics - mind summarizing his contributions to the field for a lay person.
- fouc 10y agoMight have to do with the role of information in QM.
- stuxnet79 10y agoMakes sense, I thought it was something completely unrelated to information theory.
- q4h555qh5 10y agoEntropy and information theory in general as discovered was Shannon has been generalized to the quantum case and a lot of the mathematical tools Shannon created are used in quantum information theory (QIT is a big part of QM). QIT is even often called quantum shannon theory, but I'm not sure Shannon dealt with anything quantum per se.