He is, perhaps, equally well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when-as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his fundamental work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.
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