Note that Claude Shannon's MS thesis was about re-discovering the work of an obscure British analytic philosopher, whose work from about 100 years earlier had b

Note that Claude Shannon's MS thesis was about re-discovering the work of an obscure British analytic philosopher, whose work from about 100 years earlier had been almost completely forgotten. (perhaps a few philosophers and mathematicians remembered Boole, but they certainly didn't teach his work to the engineers who had to design relay-based logic circuits back in the pre-transistor days)