If someone is interested in this, I highly recommend J R Pierce's Symbols, Signals, and Noise. The book puts Shannon's work in perspective and gives extremely useful context so that one can better appreciate its value. One can also clearly understand, for example, why the original title of Shannon's seminal work was "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" instead of Information.
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If someone is interested in this, I highly recommend J R Pierce's Symbols, Signals, and Noise. The book puts Shannon's work in perspective and gives extremely useful context so that one can better appreciate its value. One can also clearly understand, for example, why the original title of Shannon's seminal work was "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" instead of Information.