Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy

DOI10.1098/rspa.2010.0041zbMath1211.94024OpenAlexW2101718061WikidataQ64216318 ScholiaQ64216318MaRDI QIDQ2997279

Lee Rob, Pauline Ziman, Philip Jonathan

Publication date: 6 May 2011

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/vol466/issue2121/

zbMATH Keywords

languagesymbolShannon entropypetroglyphpictishprehistoric script

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Source coding (94A29)

Cites Work

• Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics

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