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".