I see there's no mention yet in this thread of A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1]. Claude Shannon launched the entire field of information theory with t

I see there's no mention yet in this thread of A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1]. Claude Shannon launched the entire field of information theory with this paper. Admittedly, not useful to everyone, but information theory is surprisingly useful outside of the simple communications context. [1] http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...