TIL that Claude Shannon's revelation that 0s and 1s could convey information was a *master's thesis*, and that he was only twenty-one. 😲 
"He gave engineers the conceptual tools to digitize information and send it flawlessly (or, to be precise, with an arbitrarily small amount of error) -- a result considered hopelessly utopian up until the moment Shannon proved it was not."
"Wizard-bearded physicist" is a profession and a vibe I never knew I needed until this moment. 🔮💫
"These were not equations that could be solved by formulas or shortcuts, only by trial & error, or intuition, or luck.
To solve them reliably—to bring calculus to bear on industrial problems of power transmission or telephone networks—demanded an intelligence of another order."
To solve them reliably—to bring calculus to bear on industrial problems of power transmission or telephone networks—demanded an intelligence of another order."
"Specialization is for insects." 🙂🐛
"Real life mathematics . . . requires barbarians: people willing to fight, to conquer, to build, to understand, with no predetermined idea about which tool should be used."
—Bernard Beauzamy, founder of the Mathematical Calculation Society SA (“Société de Calcul Mathemåtique")
—Bernard Beauzamy, founder of the Mathematical Calculation Society SA (“Société de Calcul Mathemåtique")
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