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An Introduction to Information Theory

An Introduction to Information Theory by John R. Pierce. I don’t recall why I had this book on my shelf, but it had been there for a while so I decided to catch up on my unread books. It doesn’t require prior advanced math knowledge but it’s still a textbook. I like its multi-disciplinary approach, for example: bringing in thermodynamics to discuss and compare entropy in physics and in information theory; talking (briefly) about quantum information theory; considering information theory in arts and linguistics. It inspired me to write about Huffman encoding.

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