A Mathematical Theory of Communication

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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