The Quantitative Theory of Information
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The Quantitative Theory of Information. / Topsøe, Flemming; Harremoës, Peter.
Philosophy of Information. ed. / Pieter Adriaans; Johan van Benthem. Vol. 8 Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2008. p. 171-216 (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Quantitative Theory of Information
AU - Topsøe, Flemming
AU - Harremoës, Peter
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Information Theory as developed by Shannon and followers is becoming more and more important in a number of sciences. The concepts appear to be just the right ones with intuitively appealing operational interpretations. Furthermore, the information theoretical quantities are connected by powerful identities and inequalities. The article introduces the concepts code, entropy, divergence, redundancy and mutual information which are considered to be the most important ones.
AB - Information Theory as developed by Shannon and followers is becoming more and more important in a number of sciences. The concepts appear to be just the right ones with intuitively appealing operational interpretations. Furthermore, the information theoretical quantities are connected by powerful identities and inequalities. The article introduces the concepts code, entropy, divergence, redundancy and mutual information which are considered to be the most important ones.
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-0-444-51726-5
VL - 8
T3 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
SP - 171
EP - 216
BT - Philosophy of Information
A2 - Adriaans, Pieter
A2 - van Benthem, Johan
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
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