Warren Weaver

Warren Weaver (1894?1978) was an American scientist and mathematician. Weaver was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, and graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1919. He taught mathematics at Wisconsin (1920?32), was director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Institute (1932?55), and was science consultant (1947?51), trustee (1954), and vice president (from 1958) at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Weaver's chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability.

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American - Reedsburg, Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin - Rockefeller Institute - Sloan-Kettering Institute

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He is a co-author (together with Claude Shannon) of the landmark work on communication, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. While Shannon focused more on the engineering aspects of the mathematical model, Weaver developed the philosophical implications of Shannon's much larger essay (which forms about 3/4th of the book).

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Claude Shannon - Communication

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