Mathematician:Shannon

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Shannon may refer to:

Claude Elwood Shannon $($$\text {1916}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$

American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

Noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in $1948$.

Produced the first effective design for a chess-playing computer.
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Anthony Greville Shannon $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$

Australian mathematician specialising in number theory.

Known for publishing widely on the Fibonacci numbers.
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