Information Theory.
Information Theory was created by C. E. Shannon in the late 40's.
The management of Bell Telephone Labs wanted him to call it
"Communication Theory" as that is a far more accurate name,
but for obvious publicity reasons "Information Theory" has a
much greater impact - this Shannon chose and so it is known to this day.
The title suggests that the theory deals with information - and therefore
it must be important since we are entering more and more deeply into the
information age. Hence I shall go through a few main results, not with
rigorous proofs of complete generality, but rather intuitive proofs of
special cases so that you will understand what information theory is
and what it can and cannot do for you.
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