
Cryptographer
Claude Shannon
American mathematician (1916–2001)
- Life
- 1916 – 2001
- Born
- April 30, 1916
- Died
- February 24, 2001
- Nationality
- United States
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.



