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Claude Shannon's paper on information theory [1] is possibly an example of such a paragon of work. No citations, 50 pages of pure awesome, spawned a whole resea
by kabouseng 8y ago
Claude Shannon's paper on information theory [1] is possibly an example of such a paragon of work. No citations, 50 pages of pure awesome, spawned a whole research field of its own and 70 years on just as valid.
[1] A Mathematical Theory of Communication - http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...
- eboyjr 8y agoYou said it. He proposed the model for digital AND analog communication still in use today. Although being a digital software person I admit I've never been motivated to read the part about continuous channels. I was motivated however to install an archway for my house from the exact shape in Figure 7 (binary entropy function)
- thidr0 8y agoFirst paper I thought of too.
- xurukefi 8y ago> No citations The paper contains citations. But they are hidden in the footnotes - see page 1 or page 5 for example.
- beagle3 8y agoAnd it's easily readable with basic math/engineering knowledge. Highly recommended. Erdos has a few papers that are "that good" as long as you know all the theory leading to the new insight, but none (that I read) are as clear and freestanding as Shannon's AMToC
- joker3 8y agoMath is different from empirical work. Yes, Shannon's paper is great, but that's not really relevant here because it's in a completely different paradigm.