A Mathematical Theory of Communication Also known as: Mathematical Theory of Communication · The Mathematical Theory of Communication · Magna Carta of the Information Age
Community · Information theory 1 Published in 1948 in the Bell System Technical Journal by Claude Shannon . 2 Renamed The Mathematical Theory of Communication in a 1949 book release. 3 Described by Scientific American as the Magna Carta of the Information Age . 4 Considered by engineer Robert G. Gallager to be a blueprint for the digital era . 5 Historian James Gleick identified it as the most important development of 1948 , surpassing the transistor in significance. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948.
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seminal paper establishing information theory
Published in 1948, this paper introduced the fundamental concepts of information theory, including the bit, channel capacity, and source coding theorem.
Foundational publication introducing the concept
This 1948 paper by Claude Shannon formally introduced entropy as a measure of information, establishing the mathematical framework for the field.
Foundational publication establishing the field
This 1948 paper by Claude Shannon is widely considered the seminal work that formally defined information theory and introduced its core concepts.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication is a seminal scholarly article written by the mathematician Claude Shannon and published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948 . The work was later expanded into a book titled The Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1949 .
Shannon's diagram of a general communications system, showing the process by which a message sent becomes the message received (possibly corrupted by noise) Wikimedia Commons: File:Shannon_communication_system.svg Widely regarded as the Magna Carta of the Information Age , the paper is credited with giving rise to the entire field of information theory. It has received tens of thousands of citations and is frequently cited as one of the most influential scientific papers ever written, serving as a fundamental blueprint for the digital era .
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