Jimmy soni biography

2017 book by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age is a biography of Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".^[1][2] The biography was written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, and published by Simon & Schuster in 2017.^[3][4]A Mind at Play is the second biography co-authored by Soni and Goodman, the first being a biography of Cato entitled Rome's Last Citizen.^[5]

Background

In an interview with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Soni explained that part of the reason he wrote A Mind at Play was that he was drawn to Shannon's personality and wanted to read a biography about him, but "it turned out there wasn’t one."^[3]

Synopsis

Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan in 1916 and grew up in Gaylord, Michigan.^[6] He is well k