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The Summer of 1948 witnessed the publication of what in our (admittedly biased and narrow) view must rank as one of the foremost contemporary scientific contributions, the two-part paper by Claude E. Shannon: 1948 Shannon, BSTJ, Mathematical theory of communication.
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Verdu, S. (1994). The Development of Information Theory. In: Grassberger, P., Nadal, JP. (eds) From Statistical Physics to Statistical Inference and Back. NATO ASI Series, vol 428. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1068-6_9
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