By John R. Pierce
"Uncommonly good...the such a lot gratifying dialogue to be found." — Scientific American.
Behind the favourite surfaces of the phone, radio, and tv lies a worldly and interesting physique of information often called details idea. this can be the speculation that has approved the quick improvement of every kind of conversation, from colour tv to the transparent transmission of photos from the neighborhood of Jupiter. much more progressive growth is anticipated within the future.
To supply a superb advent to this burgeoning box, J. R. Pierce has revised his well-received 1961 learn of data conception for a moment version. starting with the origins of the sector, Dr. Pierce follows the intense formulations of Claude Shannon and describes such elements of the topic as encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and that means, effective encoding, and the noisy channel. He then is going past the stern confines of the subject to discover the ways that info concept pertains to physics, cybernetics, psychology, and paintings. Mathematical formulation are brought on the applicable issues for the good thing about severe scholars. A word list of phrases and an appendix on mathematical notation are proved to assist the fewer mathematically sophisticated.
J. R. Pierce labored for a few years on the Bell phone Laboratories, the place he turned Director of analysis in Communications ideas. His Introduction to info Theory remains to be the main amazing nontechnical account on hand and a desirable creation to the topic for lay readers.
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