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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon
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
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MathOverflow and MathSciNet
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
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