He maybe has the best masters thesis of all time. I truly believe he’s the best engineer of all time, and, even if you dispute that, he’s on the Mount Rushmore.

He maybe has the best masters thesis of all time. I truly believe he’s the best engineer of all time, and, even if you dispute that, he’s on the Mount Rushmore. Turing was allegedly working on his version of information theory or at least the early stages of it, but he met Shannon at Bell Labs and thought he already solved it satisfactorily, and moved on to a new topic. Shannon’s original paper on Information Theory is also incredibly readable and doesn’t require much background.