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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Soni, Jimmy. | Goodman, Rob.

Title: A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age / by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.

Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016050944 (print) | LCCN 2016051979 (ebook) | ISBN 9781476766683 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781476766690 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781476766706 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916–2001. | Mathematicians—United States—Biography. | Electrical engineers—United States—Biography. | Information theory.

Classification: LCC QA29.S423 S66 2017 (print) | LCC QA29.S423 (ebook) | DDC 003/.54092 [B] —dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016050944

ISBN 978-1-4767-6668-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-6670-6 (ebook)