Lectures:   Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am - 12:30pm in 32-124

Textbook:

Elements of Information Theory
by T.M. Cover and J.A. Thomas, Wiley Series in Telecommunications
(Available from Quantum Books)

Recommended readings:

Information Theory and Reliable Communication
by R.G. Gallager, John Wiley & Sons.

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
by David J. C. MacKay, Cambridge University Press.

A First Course in Information Theory
by Raymond W. Yeung, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

A special reference is

Information Theory, Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems
by I. Csiszar and J. Korner

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