"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948. It was renamed The Mathematical Theory of Communication in th
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John Tukey
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John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foundations of the field of ex
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
…also developed the concepts of information entropy, redundancy and the source coding theorem, and introduced the term bit (which Shannon credited to John Tukey) as a unit of information. It was also in this paper that the Shannon–Fano coding technique was proposed – a technique developed in conjunction with…
John Tukey