A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Rob Goodman
Claude Shannon was smart and introduced the information age. He had worked much in industry and pioneered ideas useful for transmitting information across phone networks. He helped understand the redundancy of data and how information can be compressed, error corrected and used to communicate across distances. It was a very practical field with some rigourous underpinnings. He was also a "character" with interesting social skills. He married his first wife because they liked the same music. He had general "I understand the world better than traditionalists" outlook. I had a read a few Shannon books before, and didn't realize I had actually read this one before. This one felt a bit slow.
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