How Claude Shannon used information theory to cheat at Vegas roulette

When asked: Who invented the computer ? the response is Turing and von Neumann.
And who invented Information Theory ? Shannon.
We tend to forget his 1937 Master’s Thesis “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits”. In this paper he shows that electrical switches can be used to perform logic functions, calculation , etc…
So he is the co-inventor of modern computers.

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