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Title: Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas ISBN: 0-471-06259-6 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 12 August, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $94.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good book, but could be improved.
Comment: Thomas Cover is a legend in the fields of information theory, telecommunications, and complexity theory, and this book is a reflection of his expertise in these fields. Thus, I recommend anyone to read this book who is even remotely interested in these fields, for Cover will make you *very* interested after reading the book. I found the Chapter on Kolmogorov complexity to be very good, and it was the first time that I could claim I actually had a good intuitive grasp of the subject. I found the Chapters on AEP, Data Compression, and Entropy Rates also very informative. On the downside, I found the chapters on Rate Distortion and Channel Capacity (two very central topics in information theory) somewhat confusing, and have seen better presentations (see Steve Roman's "Coding and Information Theory").
Rating: 5
Summary: the best IT book in the market
Comment: If you want a single book on information theory, you must have this one. Tom Cover, as one of the major contributors to the development of information theory over the years, wrote a clear and understandable book on a somewhat involved topic. The notation is neat and clean, something difficult to find in IT books. Also, the practice exercices at the end of each chapter are all of them worth doing. In each one you discover something in the theory you did not paid due attention. The spirit of IT important quantities such as the entropy and mutual information is well explained through examples and Venn diagrams. Also, despite the fact that this is a technical book, reading it can be quite enjoyable.
Rating: 3
Summary: Cover and Thomas ain't no Robert Gallager
Comment: This book is a predictable dissapointment. It is just yet another of the best examples of how modern textbooks have diverged from traditional textbooks of the 1950 - 1970's. Although this book doesn't focus too heavily on the "practical" aspects as far as implementation of information theory, it is clear that todays books are not nearly as mathematically rigorous as the books of yesteryear. ...
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Title: An Introduction to Information Theory by J. R. Pierce ISBN: 0486240614 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 November, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver ISBN: 0252725484 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: December, 1963 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Information Theory and Statistics by Solomon Kullback ISBN: 0486696847 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Statistical Learning by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman ISBN: 0387952845 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $82.95 |
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Title: Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory by A. Ya. Khinchin ISBN: 0486604349 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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