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Re:Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius by pmoriarty on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:45PM (#14853217)
""[Shannon] didn't have much patience with people who weren't as smart as he was." It is telling that Shannon's few friends were themselves some of the era's greatest intellects: Alan Turing, John Pierce, Barney Oliver, Vannevar Bush."

Did Shannon ever meet von Neumann?

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Re:Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius by tnecniv on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:09PM (#14853279)
Yes, they were at IAS at the same time, along with Weyl, Einstein, and Godel. I think he met the latter two a few times but did not work with them. He did discuss ideas with Weyl and von Neumann, though.
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Re:Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius by 68c12c16 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:22PM (#14853309)
quite likely...or at least they had communicated with each other...

It was von Neumann who suggested Shannon to use "entropy" as the word for the measurement of information...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...

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