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Coding - Introduction
6.3. Further reading

Coding - Introduction

  • 6.1. What's the big picture?
  • 6.2. The story of coding
  • 6.3. Further reading
    • Useful links

James Gleick's book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood provides an interesting view of the history of several areas relating to coding.

6.3.1.

Useful links

  • A good collection of resources related to all three kinds of coding is available in the Bletchley Park Codes Resources
  • Entropy and information theory)
  • History of information theory and its relationship to entropy in thermodynamics
  • Timeline of information theory
  • Shannon's seminal work in information theory
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