English

Noun

information theory ‎(uncountable)

1. (mathematics) A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.

Derived terms

• algorithmic information theory
• quantum information theory

Related terms

• informatics (contradistinction)
• information science (contradistinction)

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