And before his work on information theory, his master's thesis showed that Boolean algebra could be used to design digital circuits and invented logic gates: h

And before his work on information theory, his master's thesis showed that Boolean algebra could be used to design digital circuits and invented logic gates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a... https://spectrum.ieee.org/claude-shannon-information-theory https://spectrum.ieee.org/claude-shannon-information-theory One of the all time greats.