Shannon's original paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", is still a good read: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf http://c

Shannon's original paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", is still a good read: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...