The 60 years old “Information theory” and the fuzzy concept of information

60 years ago the American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" and nobody could survey this theory's enormous consequences for science and technology. Shannon's article appeared in two parts in the July and October 1948 editions of the Bell System Technical Journal. However, it is very probable that this article wouldn't have become famous without the help of the American mathematician and Science administrator Warren Weaver (1894-1978), whose popular text "The Mathematics of communication" re-interpreted Shannon's work for broader scientific audiences. Weaver's "preface" and Shannon's article were published together in the book The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949) that represents the beginning of the then so-called "Information theory".