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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John R Pierce |
ISBN: | 0486240614 9780486240619 |
OCLC Number: | 7335058 |
Notes: | Previously published as: Symbols, signals, and noise. 1961. |
Description: | xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | I. The world and theories -- II. The origins of information theory -- III. A mathematical model -- IV. Encoding and binary digits -- V. Entropy -- VI. Language and meaning -- VII. Efficient encoding -- VIII. The noisy channel -- IX. Many dimensions -- X. Information theory and physics -- XI. Cybernetics -- XII. Information theory and psychology -- XIII. Information theory and art -- XIV. Back to communication theory -- Appendix: On mathematical notation. |
Responsibility: | John R. Pierce. |
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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.
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