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Agreed, but: he's still understudied. I think in retrospect any 21st-century math course has to include Shannon, and they don't all, yet.
by bandrami 2y ago
Agreed, but: he's still understudied. I think in retrospect any 21st-century math course has to include Shannon, and they don't all, yet.
- sebzim4500 2y agoOn some level he's a victim of his own success. He invents information theory in the same paper that proves the most interesting results, so who else will work on it?
- aidenn0 2y agoEven the practical work was done surprisingly early. I have a book on error correcting codes from the 1950s and it's missing very little (Most notably trellis codes and LDPC; the former being invented in the '70s and the latter in 1963).
- sebzim4500 2y agoThere's been much more progress on compression though (Arithmetic Coding, ANS, etc.)
- moffkalast 2y agoShannon: "I'm about to make and end this field's whole career."