
“American mathematician Claude Shannon developed information theory by 1948” (Mount & List, Milestones, 65). Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst separate edition of Claude Shannon’s revolutionary work on information theory, essential to the development of computer technology and the foundation of the modern information age, a scarce offprint published the same year as its serial appearance in two issues of Bell System Technical Journal 27 (1948), in original wrappers. Slim quarto, original stiff blue-and-gray wrappers, staple bound as issued pp. “THE MOST FAMOUS WORK IN THE HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION THEORY”: FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF CLAUDE SHANNON’S PIONEERING MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION, 1948
