Symbols, Signals, and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication |
Contents
THE WORLD AND THEORIES | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF INFORMATION THEORY | 19 |
A MATHEMATICAL MODEL | 45 |
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amplitude average number band width band-limited signal binary digits binary numbers bits per second block called channel capacity Chapter characters choice Chomsky circuit communication theory corresponding current values cybernetics digram efficient encoding electrical electromagnetic energy English text entropy equal equation ergodic source error example Figure finite-state machine fraction frequencies given grammar Huffman code human hypersphere important information rate information theory input instance Johnson noise language large number letters linear logarithm mathematical mathematicians matical Maxwell's equations means measure message source molecule motion negative feedback network theory noisy channel number of binary number of different Nyquist octal output particular physical possible prediction probability problem pulses radiation radio random received represent samples sent sentence sequence Shannon simple sine wave sort sound space specify speech statistical mechanics Suppose telegraph telegraphy temperature theorem tion transmission transmit uncertainty vocoder voltage words Zipf's law