The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon

Taub, was a computer scientist and the editor of John Von Neumann's collected papers. xix).Īrthur Taub, professionally known as A. It was like Newton writing out the laws of motion for mechanics.' (Shannon Collected Papers, p. 'Īt a stroke transformed the understanding of the process of electronic communication, by providing it with a mathematics, a general set of theorems called 'information theory.' With lucid brilliance, Shannon wrote out the basic principles of the signaling of information. Also includes 'Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication' by Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation, first published in this form (a condensed version was published in Scientific American July 1949). It reprints 'the Mathematical Theory of Communication' by Claude Shannon, first published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, with minor corrections and additional references. Item #329536 The first hardcover edition of Shannon's most important work. Printed dust jacket with tissue repairs to spine, back flap, and top edge Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 881. Original plum cloth with silver spine lettering, some bumping to lower corners and slight rubbing to head and foot of spine, ownership stamp of Arthur Taub to front pastedown. Urbana, : The University of Illinois Press, 1949. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Shannon was a research mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and Donner professor of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon