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The Mathematical Theory of Communication | 
| Authors: C.e. Shannon, Warren Weaver
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 246248
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0252725484
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.381
EAN: 9780252725487
ASIN: 0252725484
Publication Date: December 1949
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A forgotten masterpiece March 11, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is probably the most imprtant book in the whole of communications theory. Although limited in some respects in what it achieved (it was surpassed by some later work by Kolmogorov et al.) this is still the fundamental text in its area. The reader will find that some of the terminology will appear somewhat arcane - a result of 40 years of the development of information processing - but the content will more than maks up for it. It is a shame that this book has become largely forgotten.This book is truly a work of historical importance and a keystone in the developmemt of the communications industry.
Valuble information for book report March 2, 1999
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
The work of Shannon and Weaver was good. Maybe this book should be used in more classrooms as text book.
Seminal, far reaching, forgotten book December 26, 1998
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Glibly referred to by anyone with a smattering of data and telecommunications savvy, few have ever read it. As usual with breakthru authors, their efforts get commercially applied and the insightfulness of the original work is closeted, where it can conveniently be academically referred to "what he said was..." (ellipsis filled in by whatever your professor used to characterize the book.) Shannon took an early art form to a rigorous science. This is the book reporting the method of the since-evolved science of data communications, and a good bit more. The fact that I am the first reviewer in this forum speaks eloquently of the paucity of readers and the concomitant large number of data communication experts who have ignored the now larger issues it discloses than the single commercial application of one of its conclusions. Read it. You will agree with me that focusing on the source rather than the sink (terms he coined) is the weakness of communication theory as currently modeled on Shannon's first, obvious conclusion. The development of the digital computer over the past five decades has opened up the way to harness the ideas that lie latent in this excellent, groundbreaking book.Harvey B. Vedder ret Sr Data Comm Eng, Bell Atlantic us000483@mindspring.com
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