%0 Book %1 ShannonWeaver49 %A Shannon, Claude E. %A Weaver, Warren %C Urbana, IL %D 1949 %I University of Illinois Press %K 01624 101 book shelf science information theory %T The Mathematical Theory of Communication %X Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory in 1948. Republished in book form shortly thereafter in 1949, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative 1998 reprinting of a classic. Shannon's major precept, that all communication is essentially digital, is commonplace among the digitalia that many wonder why Shannon needed to state such an obvious axiom. %@ 978-0-252-72548-7

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