KnowraA Mathematical Theory of CommunicationLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to A Mathematical Theory of Communication, each with the reason it gives.All 8Broader topic 5Related 2Compared with 1Information theoryBroader topic: It introduced the framework that gave information theory its modern form.Claude ShannonBroader topic: This paper introduced the framework that made Shannon’s name central to information theory.Hamming distanceRelated: Shannon’s framework made reliable communication over noisy channels a central problem.Digital communicationRelated: It set out a general framework for encoding information and sending it through noisy channels.Shannon–Hartley theoremBroader topic: The paper presented the theoretical framework from which the channel-capacity result emerged.Ralph HartleyCompared with: Shannon’s paper transformed the problem Hartley had approached in his 1928 work.Information and communication theoryBroader topic: It introduced foundational definitions and the channel coding theorem.Noisy-channel coding theoremBroader topic: The paper stated the coding theorem and defined the capacity framework.