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Information Theory Books

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Elements of Information Theory
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Information: The New Language of Science
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Information Theory: From Coding to Learning
Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Chaos: Making a New Science
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The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude ShannonQuantum Computation and Quantum Information by Michael A. NielsenInformation Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David J.C. MacKayQuantum Information Theory by Mark WildeElements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover
Information Theory and Communication (MMath)
34 books — 6 voters
Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkLife Revisited by Laurent GrenierEvery Thing Must Go by James LadymanWhat Is Real? by Adam BeckerSomething Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll
Mindscape Podcast Books
104 books — 27 voters

High-Dimensional Probability by Roman VershyninDeep Learning by Ian GoodfellowA Geometric Approach to Differential Forms by David BachmanManifolds, Tensors, and Forms by Paul RentelnCalculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak
A not-so-gentle introduction to information geometry: probability, statistics, information theory, and differential geometry
58 books — 4 voters

Quotes Tagged “Information Theory”

James Gleick
“ For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same. ...more ”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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Norbert Wiener
“ There is much which we must leave, whether we like it or not, to the un-"scientific' narrative method of the professional historian. ...more ”
― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Groups Tagged "Information Theory"

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