Computer Science · Theory of Computation
Formal Languages & Grammars
A topic within Theory of Computation, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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- PaperA Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude Shannon, 1948
Defines information quantitatively and proves the limits of compression and error-free transmission over noisy channels.