The Logician and the Engineer—A Book Review

DOI10.1090/NOTI1046zbMATH Open1322.00009OpenAlexW2029696906MaRDI QIDQ3193042

Martin Davis

Publication date: 14 October 2015

Published in: Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/noti1046

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Information theory (general) (94A15) History of information and communication theory (94-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to information and communication theory (94-01) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) External book reviews (00A17)

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