Shannon claude e (67 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Republished in book fo…rm shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative reprinting of a classic.
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Zustand: New. Shannon s major precept, that all communication is essentially digital, is commonplace among the digitalia that many wonder why Shannon needed to state such an obvious axiom.Über den AutorClaude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver.
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Zustand: New. Shannon s major precept, that all communication is essentially digital, is now so commonplace among the modern digitalia that many wonder why Shannon needed to state such an obvious axiomKlappentextrnrnFew books have had as lasting an impact.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1956
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Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1956
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. The Mathematical Theory of Communication | Claude E Shannon (u. a.) | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 1998 | University of Illinois Press | EAN 9780252725463 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk |… Anbieter: preigu.
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Verlag: Printed for the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, 1998
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In den Warenkorbpaperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: stapled PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine with only slight wear on covers. SHANNON, CLAUDE E. A mathematical theory of communication (REPRINT). 50th anniversary edition. Cambridge, MA: Printed for the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 1998, 67pp., . An essay from… 1948 which was reprinted with corrections in the 1949 Illinois book edition. Reprinted here following "mainly the 1949 version, with additional corrections" (see the final page here: "notes" with 22 instances of textual variants.- Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory in the Bell System Technical Journal more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. (blurb from a different reprint).
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Verlag: The University of Illinois Press, 1949
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In den WarenkorbWraps. Zustand: Very Good. [1-cover sheet], [1]-5 leaves + four figures on one leaf of plates. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. A reproduced typescript with four holes punched at the spine as issued. Stapled upper left, with light overall wear and minor creasing. Last leaf stapled offset somewhat. The Bell Laboratories Filing Subject for…this paper is "Network Theory." Wraps. "It is shown that the resistance of a two-terminal resistance network is a concave function of the component resistances." (abstract) "Recently, in connection with the design of a certain circuit, a variable resistance was desired. The variation of this resistance as the shaft was turned should approximate a certain function which was convex downward. It was also desired to obtain this behavior from a circuit consisting of one or more linearly wound potentiometers on the shaft and fixed resistors. All the circuits which were studied proved to have resistance curves which were concave downward. Our lack of success led to a theorem on networks which shows that this is necessarily always the case." (first paragraph). This paper appears to discuss material eventually published as "Concavity of Resistance Functions" by Shannon and Hagelbarger. This technical memorandum was not included in Sloane and Wyner's bibliography. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple copies of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: NOT IN Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers" Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," item 98 ("Concavity of Resistance Functions").
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In den WarenkorbWraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Later printing. Later printing. 9, [3-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Publisher's printed grey, blue and black wrappers. Stapled with five holes punched at the spine as issued. Wraps. The Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Vol 38, pp. 417-425, April 1950 first published… this paper, for which an offprint is known. Offered here in the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph series (#1732:June 1950), a later printing. The wrapper title is different than the paper's title, unusual given Bell Labs' usual practice. "Summary - the central results of the Wiener-Kolmogoroff smoothing and prediction theory for stationary time series are developed by a new method. The approach is motivated by physical considerations based on electric circuit theory and does not involve integral equations or the autocorrelation function. The cases treated are the "infinite lag" smoothing problem, the case of pure prediction (without noise), and the general smoothing prediction problem. Finally, the basic assumptions of the theory are discussed in order to clarify the question of when the theory will be appropriate, and to avoid possible misapplication." PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #51 COLLECTORS NOTE: The Bell Telephone System Monograph series offered a way to obtain individual articles by Bell scientists regardless of where their work was first published. Many Monographs significantly postdate the original article publication. Because of this, they rarely constitute the coveted (and traditional) article offprint. If the journal of record issued no offprint, the Monograph might be the first separate publication - the closest the collector can come to a traditional offprint. We have done our best to place each Monograph properly in the article's publishing history and welcome any corrections or additional information, especially regarding issues unknown to us.
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In den WarenkorbWraps. Zustand: Near Fine. First Separate Edition. First Separate Edition. [42]-43 pages. 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Publisher's original tan printed wrappers. Sun fading to the rear panel. Wraps. The earliest known form of this paper is an internal Bell Labs reproduced typescript. The Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 27, No. 1, pp.…42-43, January 1956 first published this paper, for which an offprint is known (as here). Also later printed in the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph Series (#2547: March 1956). Abstract: "It is proved that any network of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors have a curve of resistance versus shaft angle which is concave downward." and later "As part of a computer, a rheostat having a resistance that was a concave upward function of the shaft angle was needed. After many attempts to approximate it with networks of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors, it became apparent that either it was impossible or that we were singularly inept network designers. Rather than accept the latter alternative, we have proved the following theorem." In short, Shannon and Hagelbarger proved it was impossible to build a needed electrical circuit with ANY network of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors. This mathematical result is an excellent example of where a practical engineering solution was needed and could have been experimented upon endlessly had the mathematicians not stepped in and proved it impossible - a hallmark of much of Shannon's work. Paul J. Nahin surmises that this paper, whose results are sometimes called the Shannon-Hagelbarger theorem, were probably related to analog computers and not a digital machine. Shannon worked for a time on the Differential Analyzer, "the most advanced electromechanical computer in the world." He also notes that H. M. Melvin advanced an alternative proof for this paper in "Journal of Applied Physics," June 1956, pp 658-659. Further research might reveal just what practical application Shannon and Hagelbarger were working on, but we haven't been able to discover it thus far. It is interesting bibliographically that all three forms of this paper (reproduced typescript, Journal of Applied Physics offprint, and Bell Monograph) in Shannon's files were slightly different. The (presumed earliest) reproduced typescript has some apparent typos and incorrectly uses the phrase "concave downward function of the shaft angle" as the desired solution in the first sentence. The Bell Monograph paper corrects that to "concave upward function," as does the Journal of Applied Physics offprint. Lastly, the Journal of Applied Physics offprint includes a second sentence in the first paragraph of Corollary II that starts "This is also true if." which is present in the reproduced typescript but not in the Bell System Monograph. The completist will want one of each. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #98 Nahin, Paul J., "The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age," p 5.
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