The Mathematical Theory of Communication
That two symbols were sufficient for encoding all communication had been established by Francis Bacon in 1623.
George Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
INFORMATION AND NOISE. One of the most helpful books I’ve read recently is Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life, by Jeremy Campbell.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Readers who appreciate the importance of Communication Theory are sometimes puzzled to run across references to Information Theory. Information Theory is a mathematical treatment of what is left after the meanings have been removed from a Communication.[c.]
John Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
“A Mathematical Theory of Communication”—“the magna carta of the information age,” as Scientific American later called it—wasn’t about one particular thing, but rather about general rules and unifying ideas. “He was always searching for deep and fundamental relations,” Shannon’s colleague Brock McMillan explains. And here he had found them. One of
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