“My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'”
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Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician known as the founder of information theory. In 1937, he published a paper on information entropy, laying the foundation for information theory. Shannon's research covered various fields, including telecommunications, computer science, and statistics. His work has had a profound impact on modern communication and computing technologies. more
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