Abstract
Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative reprinting of a classic.
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- Year
- 1948
- Type
- book
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 623-656
- Citations
- 9722
- Access
- Closed
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Claude E. Shannon
(1948).
A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
Bell System Technical Journal
, 27
(4)
, 623-656.
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb00917.x
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- DOI
- 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb00917.x