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Editorial
. 2021 Feb 17;23(2):232.
doi: 10.3390/e23020232.

Information Theory: Deep Ideas, Wide Perspectives, and Various Applications

Irad Ben-Gal  1   2 , Evgeny Kagan  2   3
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Editorial

Information Theory: Deep Ideas, Wide Perspectives, and Various Applications

Irad Ben-Gal et al. Entropy (Basel). .

Abstract

The history of information theory, as a mathematical principle for analyzing data transmission and information communication, was formalized in 1948 with the publication of Claude Shannon's famous paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" [...].

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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