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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?
2. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
3. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
4. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
5. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two "wordbooks" that Gleick refers to in this chapter?
2. While Shannon worked on secret cryptography projects for the US government during World War II, what theory about information did he conceive?
3. After the use of pictures, what were the next two stages of language development?
4. What innovation was made in the 17th century by Scot mathematician John Napier?
5. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?
6. What were the two stages of a "bit" as conceived by Claude Shannon?
7. Why did Ada Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
8. Who first at the concept of "bandwith" and in what context was it first conceived?
9. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?
10. Who invented the "first" telegraph?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What were early theories about genetics? What are genes? What were the opinions and theories on genes expressed by zoologist Richard Dawson in his book, "The Selfish Gene"?
Essay Topic 2
Provides descriptions and the functionality of the "Differential Analyzer" and the "Principia Mathematica." How did early technological advancements lead to the merging of math and logic which lead to modern computing.
Essay Topic 3
Why is the year 1948 considered a huge turning point in information theory and technology? What advances were made by researchers at Bell Laboratories during this time frame?
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