A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age /

Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal te...

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Main Author: Soni, Jimmy
Corporate Author: Tantor Media
Other Authors: Goodman, Rob, Yen, Jonathan (Narrator)
Format: Audio eBook
Language:English
Published: Old Saybrook, Conn. : Tantor Media, ℗2017.
Edition:Unabridged.
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