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Title: Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver ISBN: 0-252-72548-4 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1963 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A first!
Comment: Where it all began.---The book grew out from an epic scientific paper in 1948, but luckly its author Shannon chose a light touch and a gentle delivery in his presentation. The paper became a book, with a 1949 first edition, which is now a classic, and which has been reprinted a number of times since, ending with the present lovely 1998 edition. It is still the place where readers can learn the essentials, including the two equations of information theory, that are now named after Claude Shannon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Right from the master
Comment: The book about information theory. It is old but contain all the basic concepts. Even better, you can enjoy reading it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Arguably, the most important paper EVER written!
Comment: I think it is fair to say that this book, based on Shannons landmark paper represents what I believe to be, the most important engineering paper ever written in the history of the world (both up to this point, and likely will remain so in the future). In terms of "practical implementation" of theory, it's fair to say that this seminal work has had a far greater contribution to mankind than Einsteins' paper on general and special relativity (just don't say that to a physicists face).
... All to often, famous theorists are relegated to "cult-like" obscurity. Persons like Shannon, Gallager, Forney, Komolgorov may be legendary within a cult-circle of die-hard communication theorists, but are relegated to unfortunate obscurity by the masses. It's rather unfortunate, with todays advanced communication systems, and techniques of coding (Turbo codes, modified LDPC codes, etc..)which push the boundaries to the ultimate limits as defined by Shannon.... that more people (both engineers, and laymen alike) don't recognize the names of early pioneers who started the revolution, and who's theories are the basis for many of our modern luxuries which allow us to download information at such rapid rates.
People often underestimate the deepness of Shannons' work,due to Shannon's writing style. He was one of those rare writers (somewhat like Forney, or Massey) who can actually explain complicated subjects using mere words, without the need for prettying the theory up with fancy math. Comparing the equation filled textbooks of today, versus Shannon's work, one might get the impression that Shannon's work was simplistic. I think it's clear to anyone whos studied his work, that IT WAS NOT SIMPLISTIC. Obviously, there was alot of "behind the scenes" math which Shannon had to go through to actually codify his many theorems. Just because Shannon did not show extensive derivations for each one of his theorems does not mean that he was not a good mathemetician..It merely means that he did not want to write a 1,000 page paper... he wanted to keep it simple (as was the customary writing style in the early to mid 1900's).
In short.. This book should be on YOUR shelf if you dont already own it, and if you are interested in information theory, and the deeper underpinnings of digital communications. I give the book 5 stars, not because it's any kind of elegant literary masterpiece; simply because it is based on the most important paper ever written. ... S.A. Hoffman -
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Title: An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise by John Robinson Pierce ISBN: 0486240614 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory by Alexander I Khinchin ISBN: 0486604349 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener ISBN: 026273009X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1965 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Information Theory by Fazlollah M. Reza, Fazlollah M. Reza ISBN: 0486682102 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Information Theory and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Solomon Kullback ISBN: 0486696847 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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