The secret of life – it could be an uncrackable code

Robert Matthews laments that Claude Shannon’s passing was not noted more widely. The mathematician’s work, especially the classic 1948 paper “The Mathematical Theory of Communication”, was a foundation of information theory. What attention his death has received has generally focused on the technological implications of his work — “unsung father of the internet” kind of stuff. But Matthews suggests that

scientists involved with the Human

Genome Project would benefit from the

application of Shannon’s theorem. The argument may overreach. The Telegraph