<story><title>No Paper Is That Good</title><url>https://www.econlib.org/no-paper-is-that-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabouseng</author><text>Claude Shannon&amp;#x27;s paper on information theory [1] is possibly an example of such a paragon of work. No citations, 50 pages of pure awesome, spawned a whole research field of its own and 70 years on just as valid.&lt;p&gt;[1] A Mathematical Theory of Communication -   &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;math.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;~ctm&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;others&amp;#x2F;shannon&amp;#x2F;entropy&amp;#x2F;entropy.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;math.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;~ctm&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;others&amp;#x2F;shannon&amp;#x2F;entrop...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eboyjr</author><text>You said it. He proposed the model for digital AND analog communication still in use today. Although being a digital software person I admit I&amp;#x27;ve never been motivated to read the part about continuous channels.&lt;p&gt;I was motivated however to install an archway for my house from the exact shape in Figure 7 (binary entropy function)</text></comment>
<story><title>No Paper Is That Good</title><url>https://www.econlib.org/no-paper-is-that-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabouseng</author><text>Claude Shannon&amp;#x27;s paper on information theory [1] is possibly an example of such a paragon of work. No citations, 50 pages of pure awesome, spawned a whole research field of its own and 70 years on just as valid.&lt;p&gt;[1] A Mathematical Theory of Communication -   &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;math.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;~ctm&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;others&amp;#x2F;shannon&amp;#x2F;entropy&amp;#x2F;entropy.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;math.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;~ctm&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;others&amp;#x2F;shannon&amp;#x2F;entrop...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xurukefi</author><text>&amp;gt; No citations&lt;p&gt;The paper contains citations. But they are hidden in the footnotes - see page 1 or page 5 for example.</text></comment>