Table of Contents

0. Preface to the Dover Edition 1. The World and Theories 2. The Origins of Information Theory 3. A Mathematical Model 4. Encoding and Binary Digits 5. Entropy 6. Language and Meaning 7. Efficient Encoding 8. The Noisy Channel 9. Many Dimensions 10. Information Theory and Physics 11. Cybernetics 12. Information Theory and Psychology 13. Information Theory and Art 14. Back to Communication Theory Appendix: On Mathematical Notation Glossary Index