Below I present the opening lines of an 80-line (plus footnotes) poetic creation by Claude Shannon (1916-2001). A mathematician, engineer and cryptographer, Shannon is often called "the father of information theory." My own acquaintance with Shannon's work came through the topic of error-correction codes. Shannon's poem on the Rubik Cube was first published here in a Scientific American blog posting by John Horgan.
A Rubric on Rubik Cubics (1) by Claude Shannon
Strange imports come from Hungary:
Count Dracula, and ZsaZsa G.,
Now Erno Rubik's Magic Cube
For PhD or country rube.
This fiendish clever engineer
Entrapped the music of the sphere.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018
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