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The article entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", published in 1948 by mathematician Claude E. Shannon, was one of the founding works of the field of information theory. Shannon's paper laid out the basic elements of any digital communication:
  • An information source which produces a message
  • A transmitter which operates on the message to create a signal which can be sent through a channel
  • A channel, which is the medium over which the signal, carrying the information that composes the message, is sent
  • A receiver, which transforms the signal back into the message intended for delivery
  • A destination, which can be a person or a machine, for whom or which the message is intended
It also developed the concepts of information entropy and redundancy.

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mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics.

Problems in mathematics

Some people incorrectly believe that mathematics has been fully understood, but the publication of new discoveries in mathematics continues at an immense
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Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon
Born 30 March 1916(1916--)
Petoskey, Michigan
Died 24 January 2001 (aged 86)
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Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information to find fundamental limits on compressing and reliably communicating data.
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Signal, signals, signaling, or signalling may refer to:

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  • Signal (electrical engineering), a varying quantity that can carry information.

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Shannon entropy or information entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable.

Shannon entropy quantifies the information contained in a piece of data: it is the minimum average message length, in bits (if using base-2 logarithms), that must
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Redundancy in information theory is the number of bits used to transmit a message minus the number of bits of actual information in the message. Informally, it is the amount of wasted "space" used to transmit certain data.
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