Information Theory
by James V Stone · first published 2015
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Another excellent book that I recently read was "Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction" by James V. Stone [1]. This book is a fairly light read and builds up everything from scratch which was very nice. Shannon's original paper [2] is often touted to be very parseable,…
on “Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (Foundations of Information Theory: Part 3)” ↗A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) by C. E. Shannon [0][1] Information theory: a Tutorial Introduction (2nd Edition) by James V Stone bit more modern introduction/hands-on approach. ----- [0] : paper : https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... current…
on “What are the must read academic papers in computer science?” ↗The author of the paper has a book with the same title: https://www.amazon.com/Information-Theory-Introduction-James...
on “Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction” ↗