Re:Shannon and Weaver (Score 1)

I'm very pleased that you thought to mention Shannon, as I was thinking of a book by John R. Pierce, the inventor of the travelling wave tube that made satellite communications possible in the 60 's. Here's some other books by JR Pierce : First, Electrons and Waves, which I read in 10th grade and which set my future towards electronics : http://www.amazon.com/ELECTRONS-Introduction-science-electonics-Communication/dp/B000K6ZPP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234204934&sr=1-1 Next is another book about Shannon, called An Introduction to Information Theory : http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-John-Pierce/dp/0486240614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234205068&sr=1-1 which is a bit dated but chapter 9 has a story about hypercubes and information that is really fun and informative; and finally, moving to another favorite physicist, Richard Feynman, QED, which shows how puzzling even the simple things - light through glass - can surprise one with statistical physics : http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691024170/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234204485&sr=1-2 Enjoy !