TY - BOOK AU - Ash,Robert B. TI - Information theory / SN - 0486665216 (pbk.) U1 - 003.54 22 PY - 1990/// CY - New York : PB - Dover Publications, KW - CIT KW - Information theory N1 - "Unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published by Interscience Publishers ... New York, 1965"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-334) and index; 1. A Measure of information -- 2. Noiseless coding -- 3. the discrete memoryless channel -- 4. Error correcting codes -- 5. Further theory of error correcting codes -- 6. Information sources -- 7. Channels with memory -- 8. Continuous channels N2 - Excellent introduction treats 3 major areas: analysis of channel models and proof of coding theorems; study of specific coding systems; and study of statistical properties of information sources. Appendix summarizes Hilbert space background and results from the theory of stochastic processes. Advanced undergraduate to graduate level ER -