A Mathematical Theory Of Communication
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an influential 1948 article by mathematician Claude E. Shannon. It was renamed "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the book, a small but significant title change after realizing the generality of this work.
Read more about A Mathematical Theory Of Communication: Description
Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or theory:
“The most distinct and beautiful statement of any truth must take at last the mathematical form.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built. Nor let us look down on the standpoint of the theory as make-believe; for we can never do better than occupy the standpoint of some theory or other, the best we can muster at the time.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)