A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
“Reveals the remarkable human behind some of the most important theoretical and practical contributions to the information age.”
In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Soni and Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life.
What people are saying
“A welcome and inspiring account of a largely unsung hero—unsung because, the authors suggest, he accomplished something so fundamental that it’s difficult to imagine a world without it.”
“The writing has an impressive ability to put us into the home town of Claude Shannon, or the corridors of Bell Labs as he rides his unicycle along them.”
“An exceptionally elegant and authoritative portrait of a man of few words but many big ideas. Soni and Goodman’s elucidations of Claude Shannon’s theories are gems of conciseness and clarity, and their case for placing him in the same pantheon as Turing and von Neumann is compelling.”
“We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt.”
“Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman have written a fascinating, readable, and necessary biography of a true American genius. This is the book that finally explains Claude Shannon’s character and career as well as the context of his extraordinary life and times.”
“Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman make a convincing case for their subtitle while reminding us that Shannon never made this claim himself.”
If you want to understand the extraordinary mind that planted the seed for the information age, grab this award-winning book.