Search Results: Information Theory

Viking Adult, 2006. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. r. 296 pp. No dust jacket There are a series of information theory equations written in ink on the rfep. Otherwise this book is in like new condition.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. fourth printing. Hardback. As New/very good +. 526pp.

New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1963. Hardcover. Octavo; G; sunned green spine with black text; second edition; no jacket; cloth exterior shows slight whitish smudges; some rubbing wear to edges; sturdy boards; text block edges have mild tone; interior clean; tight binding; illustrated; pp 201 NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1341303. FP New Rockville Stock.

McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1963. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Beverly Hills:: Sage Publ.. Good+, unmarked, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Paperback.. c. 1981. ISBN: 222 pp.. Catalogs: INFORMATION THEORY. Keywords: KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION THEORY, PHILOSOPHY OF, SCIENCE, ISBN 0803916604.

McGraw Hill, January 1963. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Poor. General surface and edge wear to the cover. The corners have been bumped. Pages show reader wear and appear to be unmarked. The binding is tight and pages are secure. Dust jacket is missing the front flap. There are several edge tears and holes, especially on the back cover. There's discoloration to the spine of the dust jacket. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Springer, 1970-07-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. [Communication Theory] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor wear to dj, chip missing. Minor stain to edge. Pages unmarked. vii, 336 p., 23 cm.

McGraw-Hill, 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Good. Tight binding. Writing throughout. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Springer, 1970-07-31. Hardcover. Good.

Reidel Dordrecht, 1970. Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. 336 p.. -(Dust jacket toned and wworn, name in ink on the fly-leaf, but otherwise the book is in good condition.). ISBN 9027701555.

New York: Humanities Press, 1970-07-31. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good+. 6x0x9. Humanities Press, 1970; no later printings indicated; [ix], 336, [2 ads] pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; discoloration/mottling to spine and a portion of front board, cloth color faded, gilt titling still legible; light wear to edges of blue cloth boards otherwise; text very good; light foxing to edges of page block; publisher's review copy slip glued to front end page. Dustjacket has some toning, wear and a few small (~1inch or less) tears along edges; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. NOT ex-library. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lanham-MD/London:: Scarecrow Pr.. VG, unmarked Hardback; owner's name; no DJ.. c. 1996. ISBN: xviii + 170 pp.. Catalogs: INFORMATION THEORY. Keywords: INFORMATION THEORY, COGNITION, HEURISTICS, LEARNING THEORY, ISBN 0810831015.

McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1963. Hardcover. Good. 1963. 201 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

The MIT Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0262120801 . X-Library; Nearly new in mylar cover. ; 512 pages .

McGraw Hill. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: McGraw Hill. 1963. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name, printed stamp on FEP. Rubbing, few small open tears along panel edges. .

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Information and Inference.

Springer, 1970-07-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RALPH HARTLEY'S FOUNDATIONAL PAPER ON INFORMATION THEORY -- work that was "the single most important prerequisite" for Shannon's theory of information" (Wikipedia). Shannon acknowledged his debt to Hartley in the first paragraph of his landmark 1948 paper "A mathematical theory of communication," -- the paper in which Shannon introduced a qualitative and quantitative model of communication that solved the problem of reproducing at any given point a message originating at another point. Hartley had a way of thinking philosophically about the transmission of information, a habit that led to his unconventional method of formulating the problem of communication. Hartley "regarded the sender of a message as equipped with a set of symbols (the letters of the alphabet for instance) from which he mentally selects symbol after symbol, thus generating a sequence of symbols. He observed that a chance event, such as the rolling of… Read More

1929. First edition. Fine. Relationship of Information to the Physical World Szilard, Leo (1898-1964). Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen. In Zeitschrift für Physik 53 (1929): 840-856. Whole volume. vii, 889pp. Text illustrations. 223 x 152 mm. Library buckram. Fine. Embossed library stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Laboratory on the front free endpaper, library call number on spine. Boxed. First Edition of the founding document of information theory. In "Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen" [On the reduction of entropy in a thermodynamic system by the intervention of intelligent beings], Szilard described a theoretical model that served both as a heat engine and an information engine, establishing the relationship between information (manipulation and transmission of bits) and thermodynamics (manipulation and transfer of energy and entropy).… Read More