Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction (2nd Edition)

At last a book which is pragmatic, and properly so. So many other books are written by people whose entire life is about the subject at hand, they obviously find it easy, and run through the basics at 100mph. Here is a book where, clearly the author is still a professional, but understands completely that "baby steps", appealing first to intuition, is the initial way forward. This has the perfectly sloped learning curve for the person who is not a post-grad doctoral candidate in maths or physics (read: I'm a computer scientist and greek letter overload is just not my thing), yet it develops the concepts into rigour as one goes along. Would that all scientific textbooks were written this way.

This is easily the best and most concise introduction to Information Theory that ive read, and ive read a lot. The author takes time to elaborate the detail and anchors it around the insight that the detail is to express. I spent the whole of last christmas reading it, and it was a pleasure to finally get to grips with the theory.

Great introductory book on this topic. 1 star dinked as the quality of the book was mediocre. This book is printed by Amazon, UK (it says so in the back matter). The print and paper quality is, unfortunately, not as good as you would get with an 'off the shelf' book. If buying again, I'd try to get a publishers edition secondhand. I have given feedback directly to Amazon customer care about this.

A clear, well presented introduction to the main ideas of information theory. A number of illustrative applications are presented.

Dr. Stone's approach is very clear with easy explanations for practical information theory.

A very well-prepared introductory book for information theory.

An excellent introduction to information theory.

Good introduction, with some interesting examples. The writing style is easy to follow, but some part are a bit too dry for my taste. I still recommend it over other more complex and boring books on this subject.

This is a must read for anyone who is in the Business of ICT, but you need to have Stage 4 Maths to understand the maths.

Very easy to read introduction to information theory. Plenty of concrete examples make this book rather intuitive. Concepts are introduced are a slower pace than most books on the topic, enabling the reader to comfortably assimilate. No issues with the print quality.

This is my second book by this author. I highly recommend buying this book. Information theory is often something that is not given much detail in machine learning training. They just talk about entropy without developing the subject. Jim gives us a nice storytelling on the discoveries of the brilliant Claude Shannon. I plan to gradually buy the whole collection and hope for more books by the same author in the future.

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The author approaches the theme with clarity and simplicity, while at the same time trying to maintain a certain rigor. A little disappointing the last part of the book, in particular the part on genetics, in my opinion explained in a hasty way. On the other hand, the part on the connections with Thermodynamics and the whole first part on the key concepts of the theory are excellent.