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		alberto_ol on Sept 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics video... Thanks. To be more specific, i'm interested in learning Shannon's information theory from scratch. So far I know just the definition of entropy.

tlb on Sept 1, 2021 [–]

Shannon's book, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, is approachable with the mathematical background of first-year college calculus. I don't think it requires any more math than is essential to understand the topic.

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