An Illuminating biography of Claude Shannon, a lesser-known and yet immensely important scientist, engineer, and mathematician, the inventor of information theory and progenitor of the digital age. Claude Shannon was the first to make the connection between electronic switches and boolean logic. He theorized that all information could be stored digitally, and revolutionized communications. Driven by a deep curiosity of how things work, his theories paved the way for many of the innovations that ushered the information age.