Information Theory

“Seldom do more than a few of nature’s secrets give way at one time. It will be all too easy for our somewhat artificial prosperity to collapse overnight when it is realized that the use of a few exciting words like information, entropy, redundancy, do not solve all our problems.”

Claude Shannon, known as the “father of information theory” and the “father of the Information Age,” was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and cryptographer. In 1948, he laid the mathematical foundations of “information theory.” Eight years later, he cautioned against the overuse of his theory in an article titled “The Bandwagon.” (1) (1) fermatslibrary.com/s/the-bandwagon