Fundamentals of Information Theory

Author: Ye Zhongxing
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Information theory is a discipline that emerged in the late 1940s from long-term communication practice. It is dedicated to studying the general principles of effective information processing and reliable transmission. The book is divided into 7 chapters, covering topics such as: information measurement of random variables; information measurement of random processes; data compression and source coding; data reliable transmission and channel coding; distortion-limited data compression and rate-distortion theory; network information theory; and applications of information theory. It includes both the fundamental theories of information theory and some algorithms for information processing, as well as applications of information theory in other fields. This book can serve as a textbook for mathematics majors in information and computational science, and can also be used in similar courses for other disciplines.