Entropy (Feb 2021)

Information Theory: Deep Ideas, Wide Perspectives, and Various Applications

  • Irad Ben-Gal,
  • Evgeny Kagan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e23020232
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 2
p. 232

Abstract

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The history of information theory, as a mathematical principle for analyzing data transmission and information communication, was formalized in 1948 with the publication of Claude Shannon’s famous paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” [...]

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