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Mathematics of Information and Coding

About this Title

Te Sun Han, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan and Kingo Kobayashi, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. Translated by Professor Joe Suzuki

Publication: Translations of Mathematical Monographs
Publication Year: 2002; Volume 203
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4256-0 (print); 978-1-4704-4628-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mmono/203
MathSciNet review: MR1864410
MSC: Primary 94-02; Secondary 68P30, 94A24, 94A29, 94A60

Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Chapters

• What is information theory?
• Basics of information theory
• Source and coding
• Arithmetic code
• Universal coding of integers
• Universal coding of texts
• Universal coding of compound sources
• Data analysis and MDL principle

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