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An Introduction to Information Theory

✍ Scribed by John R. Pierce

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Leaves
332
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Second (1980) edition. "Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found"—Scientific American. Covers encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding and the noisy channel, and explores ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology and art.

✦ Subjects

Информатика и вычислительная техника;Теория информации и корректирующие коды;

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