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> 2) Elements of Information Theory by Joy Thomas and Thomas Cover is a thorough and engaging textbook. Thomas & Cover is THE textbook on information theory --
by burning_hamster 5y ago
> 2) Elements of Information Theory by Joy Thomas and Thomas Cover is a thorough and engaging textbook.
Thomas & Cover is THE textbook on information theory -- no doubt -- but you and I have very different definitions of engaging.
For a different kind of engaging, I would recommend Dave MacKay's "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms", which can be found on his website:
http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html