First edition of the first book from "the father of the information age" (The New Yorker), a landmark of computer science and the first appearance of the word "bit" in book form.
Very good.
Price: $1,250.00
"As did relativity and quantum theory, information theory radically changed the way scientists look at the universe." — Charles Seife
Originally published in 1948 in the BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURNAL, THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION conveys ideas "even more profound and more fundamental" than the invention of the transistor (James Gleick, 4). Most famous for its coinage of the word bit (the smallest unit of information), this book laid the groundwork for computers to successfully communicate with each other, and hence was central to the development of the internet. The birth of modern information theory, uncommon in its first edition.
Read more: Verdu, "Fifty years of Shannon Theory," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 44, no. 6 (October 1998); Seife, Decoding the Universe, 59; Roberts, "Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100, The New Yorker; Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
First printing. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1949. 9'' x 5.75''. Original full red cloth. Lacking jacket. 117, [1] pages. Moderate shelfwear at extremities with some minor bumping and rubbing. Ink owner name (dated 1951) on front free endpaper, one or two pencil marks internally. Some toning. Else sound and clean.
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