Information Theory

Accepted · 1948

Status: Accepted
Year: 1948

Summary

Information measured in bits, with a hard limit on how fast any noisy channel can carry it. Written for telephone engineers; now underneath every disk, modem, and compression format in existence.

Equations

Boltzmann Entropy Shannon Entropy Shannon–Hartley Channel Capacity

Proponent

Claude Shannon

Referenced by

equation

Boltzmann Entropy Shannon Entropy Shannon–Hartley Channel Capacity

researcher

Claude Shannon

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