A First Course in Information Theory by Raymond W.
Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
in Information
Technology: Transmission, Processing, and Storage. Series Editor: Jack Keil Wolf
Springer (Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers), March 2002, 434 pp., US$69.95, ISBN 0-306-46791-7 (with CD-ROM).
"No one since Shannon has had a
better appreciation for the mathematical structure of information quantities
than Prof. Yeung. . . . Yeung unveils a smorgasbord of topics in modern
information theory that heretofore have been available only in research
papers."
- Toby Berger, Cornell University
(Preface)
"These (advanced) topics, here
appearing first in a book, represent a very valuable contribution to the
literature. . . . , and the reviewer unequivocally recommends reading it.
Learning about these new research topics should be beneficial to all
information theorists, as well as to computer scientists."
- Imre Csiszar, Hungarian Academy of
Science (Book review, IEEE Transactions in Information Theory)
"As an introduction which both
covers the broad range of applications of information science and the
fundamental concepts, "Cover-Thomas" is, in my view, still
unchallenged, as is "Csiszar-Korner" for mathematical
sophistication. Yet, there is a new textbook to be added to the ranks of
these veterans and champions, . . . "
- Andreas Winter, University of
Bristol (Book review, Quantum Information and Computation)
Besides The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, this book has been used as a
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Urbana-Champaign, Information
and Communications University, International
Institute of Information Technology,
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Technology, MIT,
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of Pittsburg, Pohang
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of Rochester, Shanghai Jiao
Tong Univ, Simon Fraser University, South Methodist Univ, Stanford, Instituto
Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, and Texas A&M, Univ
of Toronto,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Solution manual
available upon request. Please contact the author. The
author acknowledges the generous support of a fellowship from the Croucher Foundation in 2000-01 during
which this book was written.
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