Shannon was born in Michigan, USA on April 30th on 19 16. His mother is a foreign language teacher and the principal of a town high school, and his father is a businessman and lawyer. Edison was the hero he envied in his childhood, and mathematics and science were his hobbies in study. 1932 entered the university of Michigan, and 1936 obtained two bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. 65438-0936 worked as a research assistant at MIT, became a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT, and undertook the work of solving differential equations with Bush analyzer. 1937 submitted the master thesis "Symbolic Analysis of Relays and Switching Circuits", and put forward the systematic method of designing and analyzing logic circuits for the first time. It is one of the milestones of digital signal processing, and won the Afred Noble Excellent Paper Award in 1940. /kloc-in 0/940, he obtained the master's degree in electrical engineering and the doctor's degree in mathematics, and his doctoral thesis was Algebra of Theoretical Genetics (unpublished). 194 1 ~ 1956, working in Bell Laboratories. 1956, he is a visiting scholar at MIT, and the next year he was hired permanently by MIT. 1978 retired. 20065438+0 died on February 24th.

Shannon is proficient in communication and mathematics, and integrates mathematics knowledge and engineering well. The great mathematician Colmo Grove summed up Xiannong's talent as a scholar. He said: "In an era when our instructions are becoming more and more specialized, Shannon is an outstanding model of scientists. He combined profound and abstract mathematical ideas with general and specific understanding of key technical problems. He is considered to be one of the greatest engineers and one of the greatest mathematicians in recent decades. "