Jimmy Soni has served as an editor at The New York Observer and the Washington Examiner and as managing editor of Huffington Post. He is a former speechwriter, and his written work and commentary have appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, and CNN, among other outlets. He is a graduate of Duke University. With Rob Goodman, he is the coauthor of Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, and A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.
发表于2025-03-17
A Mind at Play 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
看标题,既然是传记,就应该围绕传主一生最重要的成果——信息论,特别是信息论的由来和此前的历程。但是香农青年得志,而整部传记用力却是均匀分布的,在发表了信息论以后,又讲了很多,有趣,却与标题无关。 再看英文原题,明白了。原题是 A Mind at Play ,全文正是围绕这...
评分 评分图书标签: 传记 信息论 Shannon 英文原版 计算机 数学和计算机 计算机科学 英文
In their second collaboration, biographers Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman present the story of Claude Shannon—one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century and the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed the first wearable computer, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called “the Magna Carta of the Information Age.” In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Soni and Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life.
THE Beautiful Mind.
评分咱的祖师爷,必须读。伟大的数学家和工程师。看到后面他患阿尔茨海默症后的生活,眼里不禁泛出泪花。虽然不少故事我都知道,但仍不失为一本很好的传记。
评分THE Beautiful Mind.
评分幾年前工作時偶然看到一家上海硬盤製造企業名字中就有「香濃」一詞,當時就問同事Alex此君是誰,被告知是天才式人物,後來維基百科後方知此君過人之處。拜讀其傳記才知此君是現在科技發展幕後功臣,功勳遠在蓋茨、喬布斯之上,卻不被大眾所熟知。此君畢生在好奇中探索並為之而樂此不疲,終其一生,碩果累累。自建國伊始,大學及科研機構奠定了美國繁榮之基石,時至今日仍日益精進,一騎絕塵。
评分也许香农内向和隐秘的生活方式没有留下太多奇闻与轶事,全书的人物刻画显得平淡乃至趋于宣讲式的扁平的模范形象。不过这也许更凸显了天才超乎凡人的,不仅仅是天资,更是一颗永远好奇与不知足的心态(constructive dissatisfaction),敏锐的直觉和科学的思考方式。
A Mind at Play 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书