Monthly Archives: April 2016

Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Claude Shannon is famous among mathematicians and computer scientists for his remarkable work, particularly in the realm of  information theory.  Of particular importance is Shannon’s notion of information entropy, often referred to now as “Shannon entropy”.  He launched the theory … Continue reading →

Posted in Anniversaries, Mathematicians | Leave a comment

MathOverflow and MathSciNet

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Earlier, I posted about adding MR links to Wikipedia pages.  The point of that post was that it was fairly simple to add a link to MathSciNet while editing a Wikipedia page.  In March 2014, Scott Morrison, a MathOverflow user (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Math on the web, MathOverflow | Leave a comment