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Three years prior, Shannon worked out many of the issues for his theory of information in his work on cryptography: Shannon, Claude. “A Mathematical Theory of

• abecedarius 10y ago
  Not found. Did you mispaste the url?
  • Kikawala 10y ago
    Working alternative link with PDF here: https://www.iacr.org/museum/shannon45.html https://www.iacr.org/museum/shannon45.html
• femto 10y ago
  I've just finished the history book "The Theory that would not die", as mentioned here a couple of weeks ago [1]. It's got some interesting stuff to say on how Shannon's work emerged from the cryptography scene. According to the book, Information Theory was the culmination of all sorts of pragmatic techniques that were developed during code breaking. The terminology and expression was different (eg. information was measured in bans rather than bits), but it was really interesting to read about how practice developed into theory. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983200