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It's an excerpt from the same book by the same two authors, who are promoting it in another publication with another focus. It's missing in this article, which
by mxfh 9y ago
It's an excerpt from the same book by the same two authors, who are promoting it in another publication with another focus. It's missing in this article, which is focussing on the theory, not on his life, but it's in the books big picture. Maybe they had it in there and pitched an exclusive piece to different magazines? Who knows.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.
- sp332 9y agoOk, that makes sense. It just seemed odd to have so much information from his girlfriend and then not a word about his wife.
- mxfh 9y agoActually it looks like the reason is purely chronological: This article is about the research and live events following up to the publication of his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 and ends there. He met his wife Betty in '48 after most of this already happened.
- mxfh 9y agoIf you want to read some German. Dietmar Dath's Skye Boat song is a more fictional hommage to Shannon. http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437 http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437