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Claude Shannon

1916 - 2001

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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory". He was the first to describe the Boolean gates (electronic circuits) that are essential to all digital electronic circuits, and he built the first machine learning device, thus founding the field of artificial intelligence. He is credited alongside George Boole for laying the foundations of the Information Age.As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical numerical relationship, thereby establishing the theory behind digital computing and digital circuits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Shannon has received more than 4,325,229 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Claude Shannon is the 56th most popular mathematician (down from 47th in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from United States (down from 268th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Mathematician.

Claude Shannon is most famous for his work in information theory, which is the study of how information is encoded and transmitted.

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  • 8.32

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Over the past year Claude Shannon has had the most page views in the with 342,502 views, followed by Russian (48,813), and Spanish (32,467). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (738.19%), Telugu (395.12%), and Belarusian (129.03%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Claude Shannon ranks 56 out of 1,004. Before him are Brahmagupta, Sophie Germain, Karl Weierstrass, Philolaus, Marin Mersenne, and Norbert Wiener. After him are Gaspard Monge, Al-Battani, Émilie du Châtelet, August Ferdinand Möbius, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, and Hermann Minkowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Claude Shannon ranks 13. Before him are Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, Aldo Moro, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Gough Whitlam. After him are João Havelange, Ahmed Ben Bella, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Handler, Harold Wilson, and Yehudi Menuhin. Among people deceased in 2001, Claude Shannon ranks 6. Before him are Anthony Quinn, George Harrison, Tove Jansson, Josef Bican, and Didi. After him are Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jorge Amado, Jack Lemmon, Herbert A. Simon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claude Shannon ranks 316 out of 20,380. Before him are Norbert Wiener (1894), Eli Whitney (1765), Rita Hayworth (1918), J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Nina Simone (1933), and J. P. Morgan (1837). After him are James Buchanan (1791), Grover Cleveland (1837), Paul Samuelson (1915), George Westinghouse (1846), Henry Miller (1891), and Ted Kaczynski (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Claude Shannon ranks 4. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), and Norbert Wiener (1894). After him are Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Jesse Douglas (1897), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), and Paul Cohen (1934).

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