Shannon, Claude. "A Symmetrical Notation for Numbers." Article in: The American Mathematical Monthly, volume 57, Number 2, February 1950. Article occupies pp 90-93in the issue that occupies pp 73-144. Scarce. $50 
(b. Petoskey, Michigan, 30 April 1916, d. Medford, Massachusetts, 24 February 2001), engineering sciences, communication sciences, cryptography, information theory.
"Shannon is first and foremost known as a pioneer of the information age, ever since he demonstrated in his seminal paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” (1948) that information could be defined and measured as a scientific notion. The paper gave rise to “information theory,” which includes metaphorical applications in very different disciplines, ranging from biology to linguistics via thermodynamics or quantum physics on the one hand, and a technical discipline of mathematical essence, based on crucial concepts like that of channel capacity, on the other. Shannon never showed much enthusiasm for the first kind of informal applications. He focused on the technical aspects and also contributed significantly to other fields such as cryptography, artificial intelligence, and domains where his ideas had their roots and could be readily applied in a strict fashion, that is, telecommunications and coding theory."
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