Name: The Mathematical Theory of Communication
ISBN: 9780252725487

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

Claude E. Shannon

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Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative reprinting of a classic.

Book Details

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1963
Pages: 144
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.41in - 0.43in - 0.39lb
EAN: 9780252725487
Categories: • Number Theory

About the Author

Claude E. Shannon was a research mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and Donner professor of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Warren Weaver had a distinguished academic, government, and foundation career. Both authors received numerous awards and honors.

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@brunowinck @codexeditor @alanlaidlaw When thinking about this, recall that in the second paragraph of The Mathematical Theory of Communication (University of Illinois Press, 1949), Claude Shannon explicitly separates the semantic meaning from the engineering problem of communication. https://t.co/q4yfk8c7kQ

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‘After the three words “in the event” the probability of “that” as the next word is fairly high, and for “elephant” as the next word is very low,’ Warren Weaver writes in The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949). Google proves him right. https://t.co/ITUGJoOzrv

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Praise for this book

"A beautiful example of a theory that unifies hitherto separate branches of physical science, and Dr. Weaver makes important suggestions as to how this unity may be extended to include semantics and pragmatics."--Philosophical Review

"Readers who are interested in language, communication, meaning, and related problems will find this monograph rewarding."--Quarterly Review of Biology

"This book cannot be ignored by anyone with direct professional concern with these applications and many applied physicists without this concern should, like the reviewer, find the book absorbing."--S. Whitehead, British Journal of Applied Physics

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