Introduction to information theory; entropy and information; discrete sources; Shannon-McMillan theorem; noiseless coding theorems; noisy channel and information transmission rate; channel capacity; Shannon's theorem for the noisy channel; error correcting codes; continuous messages and continuous channels; reproduction with a fidelity criterion; basic theorem for a continuous channel.

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