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Our last topic in this book consists of a very brief description on the relation between statistical physics and information theory, a research field pioneered by Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001), whose seminal paper “A Mathematical Theory of communications” (1948) has established the corner–stone of this field.
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Merhav, N. (2018). A Brief Touch on Information Theory\(^*\) . In: Statistical Physics for Electrical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62063-3_8
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