Pierce J.R. An Introduction to Information Theory

Springer, 1997. - 147 pages. This book is the final version of a course on algorithmic information theory and the epistemology of mathematics and physics. It discusses Einstein and Goedel's views on the nature of mathematics in the light of information theory, and sustains the thesis that mathematics is quasi-empirical. There is a foreword by Cris Calude of the University of Auckland, and supplementary material is available at the author's web s...

Wiley series in telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991. – 563 pages. This is intended to be a simple and accessible book on information theory. As Einstein said, ’’Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.’’ This point of view drives our development throughout the book. We were drawn to the field of information theory from backgrounds in communication theory, probability theory and statistics, because of the...

Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss, 2009, 691 pages Information theory lies at the heart of modern technology, underpinning all communications, networking, and data storage systems. This book sets out, for the first time, a complete overview of both classical and quantum information theory. Throughout, the reader is introduced to key results without becoming lost in mathematical details. Opening chapters present the basic concepts and various applicati...

2nd Edition Springer, 2011. 409 p. ISBN:1441979697 This book is an updated version of the information theory classic, first published in 1990. About one-third of the book is devoted to Shannon source and channel coding theorems; the remainder addresses sources, channels, and codes and on information and distortion measures and their properties. New in this edition: Expanded treatment of stationary or sliding-block codes and their relations to...

Prentice Hall, 1986. - 272 pages. Preface to the First Edition: This book combines the fields of coding and information theory in a natural way. They are both theories about the representation of abstract symbols. The two fields are now each so vast that only the elements can be presented in a short book. Information theory is usually thought of as "sending information from here to there" (transmission of information), but this is exactly the...

Sрringer, 2010. - 371 p. "Dynamics of Information Systems" presents state-of-the-art research explaining the importance of information in the evolution of a distributed or networked system. This book presents techniques for measuring the value or significance of information within the context of a system. Each chapter reveals a unique topic or perspective from experts in this exciting area of research. These newly developed techniques have numer...

Издательство John Wiley, 2006, -518 pp. The concepts of uncertainty and information studied in this book are tightly interconnected. Uncertainty is viewed as a manifestation of some information deficiency, while information is viewed as the capacity to reduce uncertainty. Whenever these restricted notions of uncertainty and information may be confused with their other connotations, it is useful to refer to them as information- based uncertainty...

Peter Smith, 1978. - 399 pages. Highly useful text studies the logarithmic measures of information and their application to testing statistical hypotheses. Topics include introduction and definition of measures of information, their relationship to Fisher’s information measure and sufficiency, fundamental inequalities of information theory, much more. Numerous worked examples and problems.

The present book provides a concise overview of channel coding theory and practice as well as the accompanying algorithms, architectures and applications. The selection of the topics presented in this book is oriented towards those subjects that are relevant for information and communication systems in use today or in the near future. The focus is on those aspects of coding theory that are important for the understanding of these systems. This bo...

2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This book has arisen from over ten years of lectures in a two-quarter sequence of a senior and first-year graduate-level course in information theory, and is intended as an introduction to information theory for students of communication theory, computer science, and statistics. The first quarter might cover Chapters 1 to 9, which includes the asymptotic equipartition property, data compression, and channel...