Claude Shannon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Shannon

American mathematician and information theorist

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1916

Place of Birth: Petoskey, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-2001

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, inventor, university teacher, sport cyclist, geneticist, cryptographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", that he published in 1948. He is also well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when—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.
Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his fundamental work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.