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If you've not read it, I think you'd enjoy The Information by James Gleick [0] - lots of it touches on these points, and Shannon obviously figures heavily. It's one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information%3A_A_History%2...

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Thanks for the cool recommendation! It looks like James Gleick has written a couple of other interesting books, namely:

"Chaos: Making a New Science"

and

"Time Travel"

p.s. you've inspired me to start keeping track of interesting HN search filters, for example- book recommendations.

https://github.com/sleaze/hn-search-filters

I know I've forgotten some interesting ones, hence this effort to organize.

From a newbie on the subject, I really enjoyed Chaos. It’s prompted a further book-buying and research spree :) Pairs well with The Information, I think.

Thanks! Btw, really like your profile. I've started linking and snapshotting the good ones @ https://github.com/sleaze/hn-search-filters, so many good nuggets of wisdom amongst a great deal of noise.

If you find it creepy or don't like it please let me know and I'll purge completely from the repository history.

+1 for The Information - a great book.

Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman, Genius is also excellent. And Chaos and Time Travel: A History, although the latter looks at the subject from literary and philosophical perspectives as well as science.

Pair with Darwin Among the Machines and Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson.

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