[New York: The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc.], 1949. First edition of the rare author’s offprint, from Claude E. Shannon’s personal files, of the paper that first put into print three of the results on which modern communication rests: the geometric proof of the channel-capacity formula C = W log2(1..... More
Item #5549
New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1938. First edition of Shannon’s famous master’s thesis. Herman Goldstein has called the thesis “masterful … surely one of the most important master’s theses ever written … a landmark in that it helped to change digital circuit design from an art to a...... More
Item #5212
New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE], 1938. First edition, in the form Shannon’s own department circulated three months before the bound journal reached its subscribers, of the paper that made the design of switching circuits a deductive science. In the summer of 1937 Claude Shannon, a twenty-one-year-old research..... More
Item #5553