Math Club
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m Place: Jeffery Hall 118
Speaker: Peter Taylor (Queen's University)
Title: Is Bacon Shakespeare?
Abstract: We will look at a sampling of the cryptographic "proofs" that have been put forward for Francis Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare's plays, and then analyze these using Claude Shannon's fundamental ideas based on the information content of the English language.