Friedrich Kittler. Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Information. 2010

Literary scientist and media theorist Friedrich Kittler discusses the invention of transmitting letters into humanly readable form, elaborated in Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Information and Communication. This is most emphatically illuminated in the redundancy and optimization of Boolean binary logic. Professor Kittler posits his “philosophical duty“ in linking the philosophical work of 17th-Century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz to Claude Shannon’s