Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory - Brossura

Khinchin, Alexander I.

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ISBN 10: 0486604349 ISBN 13: 9780486604343

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1957

Riassunto

The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein, and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists, and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.
In his first paper, Dr. Khinchin develops the concept of entropy in probability theory as a measure of uncertainty of a finite “scheme,” and discusses a simple application to coding theory. The second paper investigates the restrictions previously placed on the study of sources, channels, and codes and attempts “to give a complete, detailed proof of both ... Shannon theorems, assuming any ergodic source and any stationary channel with a finite memory.”
Partial Contents: I. The Entropy Concept in Probability Theory — Entropy of Finite Schemes. The Uniqueness Theorem. Entropy of Markov chains. Application to Coding Theory. II. On the Fundamental Theorems of Information Theory — Two generalizations of Shannon’s inequality. Three inequalities of Feinstein. Concept of a source. Stationarity. Entropy. Ergodic sources. The E property. The martingale concept. Noise. Anticipation and memory. Connection of the channel to the source. Feinstein’s Fundamental Lemma. Coding. The first Shannon theorem. The second Shannon theorem.

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Contenuti:

The Entropy Concept In Probability Theory 1. Entropy of Finite Schemes 2. The Uniqueness Theorem 3. Entropy of Markov chains 4. Fundamental Theorems 5. Application to Coding Theory On the Fundamental Theorems of Information Theory INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. Elementary Inequalities 1. Two generalizations of Shannon's inequality 2. Three inequalities of Feinstein CHAPTER II. Ergodic Sources 3. Concept of a source. Stationarity. Entropy 4. Ergodic Sources 5. The E property. McMillan's theorem. 6. The martingale concept. Doob's theorem. 7. Auxillary propositions 8. Proof of McMillan's theorem. CHAPTER III. Channels and the sources driving them 9. Concept of channel. Noise. Stationarity. Anticipation and memory 10. Connection of the channel to the source 11. The ergodic case CHAPTER IV. Feinstein's Fundamental Lemma 12. Formulation of the problem 13. Proof of the lemma CHAPTER V. Shannon's Theorems 14. Coding 15. The first Shannon theorem 16. The second Shannon theorem CONCLUSION REFERENCES

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The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this text explores the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein, and Khinchin. Its rigorous treatment addresses the entropy concept in probability theory and fundamental theorems as well as ergodic sources, the martingale concept, anticipation and memory, and other subjects. 1957 edition.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0486604349
• ISBN 13: 9780486604343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128