Adrián Franco-Rubio

I wrote a popular science article celebrating Claude Shannon's information theory for "Dimensión fractal", the joint outreach initiative of ICMAT and the Spanish online newspaper elDiario.es:

• 25 años sin Claude Shannon, el matemático que nos enseñó a medir la información

The article introduces the notion of Shannon entropy of a source as a measure of the average "surprise" that a given message will cause its receptor. It then touches on Shannon's noiseless coding theorem, his research on the entropy of language and its connection to the training process of modern large language models.

While I was at the University of Zaragoza, I collaborated with the "Taller de Talento Matemático", a praiseworthy initiative to get high school students interested in advanced, but fun, mathematical topics. It runs biweekly during the school term, and I really recommend it, both as a student and a teacher. You can find more information here:

• Taller de Talento Matemático