Among my favorites is Claude Shannon's model of language as a Markov processes in his seminal paper on information theory [0]. His presentation of ergodicity is

Among my favorites is Claude Shannon's model of language as a Markov processes in his seminal paper on information theory [0]. His presentation of ergodicity is also remarkably clear compared to the usual muddle about ensemble and time averages. (The book version of Shannon's paper [1] is even a bit better.) 0. http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-379.pdf http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj... 1. http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon/dp/0252725484 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Clau...