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 "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is one of the most elegant papers that I have read...<p><a href="http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/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://rbsc.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://rbsc.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Non-Cooperati...</a> )