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 6.050J / 2.110J     Information and Entropy

Notes

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Note that these notes are still under development. In particular, Chapter 13 is in very sketchy form, and many useful, illuminating examples are waiting to be inserted in other chapters.

Table of Contents

Preface (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 1. Bits (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 2. Codes (version 1.1.0)
  Transcribing RNA to Proteins

Chapter 3. Compression (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 4. Errors (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 5. Probability (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 6. Communications (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 7. Processes (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 8. Inference (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 9. Principle of Maximum Entropy (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 10. Physical Systems (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 11. Energy (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 12. Temperature (version 1.1.0)

Chapter 13. Quantum Information (version 1.1.0)

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