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Information and Entropy, Spring 2008
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
Unified theory of information with applications to computing, communications, thermodynamics, and other sciences. Digital signals and streams, codes, compression, noise, and probability. Reversible and irreversible operations. Information in biological systems. Channel capacity. Maximum-entropy formalism. Thermodynamic equilibrium, temperature. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Quantum computation.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
