A Mathematical Theory of Communication on “Academic Papers That Wrecked My Head”, a list by Colm Heneghan on TheLysts.

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Title
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Author
Claude Shannon
Field
Information Theory
Year
1948
Why It Matters
The whole internet is basically a footnote to this paper
Difficulty
Hard but fair
Best Read With
A notebook, you'll want to scribble
My Take
Read it after a few pints one night out of curiosity, regretted the pints not the paper