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Dear Mathematician: Dear Claude Shannon

May 3, 2017

Information theory sends Claude Shannon a low-entropy birthday card.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-03-dear-mathematician-who-discovered-me--dear-mathematician-dear-claude-shannon/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Dear Claude Shannon, Happy 100th birthday! (And sorry to write you such a low-entropy message. You probably knew what this said without even opening the card, didn't you?) A bit apologetically, Information Theory" [card: "C.S.: H. b-day. Sry 4 lo-entr. –Info T."]

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