Summary of Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman's A Mind at Play

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#1 The treasure was buried five feet down in the South Carolina soil, in the shadow of a gnarled tulip poplar tree. But the tale doesn’t end there. Legrand found the code on a parchment washed up from a shipwreck.

#2 Claude Shannon was a boy who loved to tinker with things. When he was young, he built a fence that could carry electricity between two houses, and used it to communicate with his friends.

#3 Claude Shannon, the groom, was a traveling salesman who had arrived in Gaylord just after the turn of the century. He had bought out the business dealing in furniture and funerals, and lived to see it pay. His most significant stretch of employment was as Otsego County probate judge.

#4 Gaylord was a small town in northern Michigan that was shaped by its topography and climate. It was a perfect place to grow millions of acres of forest. The trees drew the lumber industry, and the first visitors and inhabitants were willing to contend with the climate for the rich cache of white pine and hardwoods.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822532847

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Insights on Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman's A Mind at Play

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The treasure was buried five feet down in the South Carolina soil, in the shadow of a gnarled tulip poplar tree. But the tale doesn’t end there. Legrand found the code on a parchment washed up from a shipwreck.

#2

Claude Shannon was a boy who loved to tinker with things. When he was young, he built a fence that could carry electricity between two houses, and used it to communicate with his friends.

#3

Claude Shannon, the groom, was a traveling salesman who had arrived in Gaylord just after the turn of the century. He had bought out the business dealing in furniture and funerals, and lived to see it pay. His most significant stretch of employment was as Otsego County probate judge.

#4

Gaylord was a small town in northern Michigan that was shaped by its topography and climate. It was a perfect place to grow millions of acres of forest. The trees drew the lumber industry, and the first visitors and inhabitants were willing to contend with the climate for the rich cache of white pine and hardwoods.

#5

Claude had some successes in his early schooling. In 1923, at the age of seven, he won a third-grade Thanksgiving story-writing contest, for his work A Poor Boy.

#6

Shannon’s interest in mathematics came naturally to him. He loved science and disliked facts. He found chemistry dull, and he couldn’t bring under a rule and abstract his way out of it.

#7

Shannon’s grandfather, Claude, was a huge fan of Thomas Edison. He grew up admiring Edison, and even built a makeshift elevator in his barn.

#8

Ann Arbor was a city of steep hills and valleys, interrupted by the muddy banks and low gradient of the slow-flowing Huron River. It was a population that was infused with an optimism that suffused the city with irrepressible optimism.

#9

Under the leadership of Dean Mortimer Cooley, the College of Engineering’s enrollments grew from less than 30 to more than 2,000 students. The number of engineering students surpassed even the number of students in medicine and law.