Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius
Thanks for sharing this article...not familiar with Betty Shannon, but her husband, Claude Shannon was really a genius...His paper &quot;A Mathematical Theory of Communication&quot; is one of the most elegant papers that I have read...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.harvard.edu&#x2F;~ctm&#x2F;home&#x2F;text&#x2F;others&#x2F;shannon&#x2F;entropy&#x2F;entropy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.harvard.edu&#x2F;~ctm&#x2F;home&#x2F;text&#x2F;others&#x2F;shannon&#x2F;entrop...</a><p>Sigh...the one hundred years before 1990 was really a period of giants, with Claude Shannon, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Emmy Noether, David Hilbert -- as well as Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac, Louis de Broglie and the other quantum guys...<p>I have to admit it was those guys that inspired me to try to pursue a career in academia...but after I grew up, I found they were all dead -- or it might be the other way around...and many academic papers these days are filled with words that do not resonant, and with bloated references that do not shine -- some even marked with the acceptance rate of its publication to show off their elitism...<p>Seems that the age when a 25-page PhD thesis, containing only 2 references, could still be well accepted is fading further and further away...<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rbsc.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rbsc.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;Non-Cooperati...</a> )