The Man Who Brought Us Code

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman's latest book "A Mind at Play" follows the life of engineer and mathematician Claude Shannon.

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman share how 20th-century mathematician, electrical engineer and cryptographer Claude Shannon laid the groundwork for digital communication. In their latest book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, they follow Shannon's work at MIT and Bell Labs from tinkering with flame-throwing trumpets to compressing messages into digital code.