Kyle Harrison
to-read
A Mind at Play
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- Author
- Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 375
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: The Soni and Goodman biography of Claude Shannon — the Bell Labs mathematician whose 1948 paper made information a measurable quantity and every later digital system possible.
Where I saw it: Recommended by @oprydai on X (September 6, 2025): “what if one person’s curiosity could spark the entire digital revolution?”
Connections
- Claude Shannon — the subject.
- Information Theory — the field the book is about the founding of.