Kolmogorov and his students generated enough activity to justify a new quarterly journal, Problems of Information Transmission, devoted to information theory, coding theory, theory of networks, and even information in living organisms. The inaugural issue opened with Kolmogorov’s “Three Approaches to the Definition of the Concept ‘Amount of Information’”—almost a manifesto—which then began its slow journey toward the awareness of mathematicians in the West.
Thirteen ways of looking at information theory or, Three approaches to a blackbird
