Why the Shannon and Hartley entropies are ‘natural’

DOI10.2307/1426210zbMath0277.94011OpenAlexW2327198916MaRDI QIDQ4404131

János Aczél, Bruno Forte, Che Tat Ng

Publication date: 1974

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426210

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities for sums, series and integrals (26D15) Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Information theory (general) (94A15) Functional equations and inequalities (39B99)

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