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Claude Shannon, an Epic card
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 510,000
Ranked #1093 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Shannon was among the first to describe the use of Boolean algebra, essential to all digital electronic circuits, and helped found the field of artificial intelligence.
- The roboticist Rodney Brooks declared Shannon the 20th century engineer who contributed the most to 21st century technologies, and the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb described his intellectual achievement as "one of the greatest of the twentieth century".
- At the University of Michigan, Shannon graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, both in 1936.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Claude Shannon article was read about 510,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Claude Shannon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.







