Shannon's Way

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But the engineering of communication systems was always tied to the specific source and physical medium. After working on the problem for a decade, Shannon finally published his masterpiece in 1948: “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.This surprising result is a cornerstone of the modern digital information age, where the bit reigns supreme as the universal currency of information. This is the maximum rate at which the receiver can resolve the message’s uncertainty, effectively making it the speed limit for communication. Victor Gollancz hardback fifth impression (frst cheap edition); good, clean and sound copy, fep has been corner-clipped, faded boards, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. In reality, some sequences are much more likely than others, and the entropy rate is much lower, allowing for greater compression.Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (New York time) and can only accept comments written in English. After all, if you knew ahead of time what I would say to you in this column, what would be the point of writing it? We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? Before Shannon, the problem of communication was primarily viewed as a deterministic signal-reconstruction problem: how to transform a received signal, distorted by the physical medium, to reconstruct the original as accurately as possible.

This single observation shifted the communication problem from the physical to the abstract, allowing Shannon to model the uncertainty using probability. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. He never won a Nobel Prize, and he wasn’t a celebrity like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, either before or after his death in 2001. Km's to get toTullahennell, ( north of Kilcock ) it is blocked in a few places by overgrown briars and furze bushes. From smoke signals to carrier pigeons to the telephone to television, humans have always sought methods that would allow them to communicate farther, faster and more reliably.Faint initials stamped to top and bottom page edges, else unmarked; spine slanted and lightly creased. Shannon undergoes a nervous breakdown when he completes the project only to find that someone else has anticipated his results, and is nursed by and marries Jean. When I started graduate school, my adviser told me that the best work would prune the tree of knowledge, rather than grow it. In a 1939 letter to his mentor, Vannevar Bush, Shannon outlined some of his initial ideas on “fundamental properties of general systems for the transmission of intelligence.