Probability and Information (Theory and Decision Library)

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Название:Probability and Information (Theory and Decision Library)

Автор: A.M. Yaglom, I.M. Yaglom

Издательство: Springer

ISBN: 902771522X

Дата издания:1983-11-30

Страниц: 448

Язык:Английский

Формат:DJVU

Размер: 6 MB

The panoramic history of this book is described in the prefaces of its Russian editions. It has taken to a chequered and not customary course of development; to start with it was a small elementary book for teenagers based on a lecture delivered by one of us 23 years ago to a group of Moscow high school students. The primary aim of the book was to expose the relationship of certain mathematical recreation exercises with rather serious and very interesting mathematical methods developed recently in engineering sciences in order to stimulate young readers' interest in modern mathematics. Later, however, the book began to live independently of our wishes. We received a lot of letters and comments from our readers and almost all of them turned out to be grownups having no leisure for recreations but seriously interested in the information theory. Therefore, we changed considerably the scope of our book in the second and third editions in an effort to meet the demands of the new (and, as we discovered, the predominant) category of our readers. As a result, the book developed into a thick volume intended for a wide community of people interested in various applications of the modern information theory, but having no special mathematical background (in fact, even the requirement of the knowledge of elementary differential calculus is dispensed with in our book).