Information Theory
Subtitle: 50 Years of Discovery
Contributors: Sergio Verdú (Editor); Steven W. McLaughlin (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Published: September 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780780353633
Subjects: Technology; General; Computers - General Information; Science/Mathematics; Computers / Information Theory; Engineering - General; Information Theory
First sentence: THE self-information of a random event or a random message is a term coined by C.E. Shannon who defined it to be "minus the logarithm of the probability of the random event."