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 heard about it
- @oprydai — recommended it on X in September 2025: “this book tells the story of claude shannon; the genius who invented information theory and quietly built the foundation of the information age.”
Connections
- Claude Shannon — the subject.
- Information Theory — the field the book is about the founding of.