A person who made a breakthrough in mathematics and circuitry, endowing machines with mathematical logic. A genius who made his most important discovery at the age of 21. Distant relative of Thomas Edison. Colleague of Alan Turing, who worked with him during the Second World War on secret government projects. A man who remained a self-taught inventor until the end of his days. And all this is Claude Shannon, one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. It was thanks to him that the faceless streams of electrons traveling through wires were called “Information” and acquired their own units of measurement - bits and bytes.