Born April 30, 1916 in Gaylord, Michigan [Died] February 24, 2001. Medford, Massachusetts. American applied mathematician. Studied electrical engineering and mathematics at the University of Michigan, and electrical circuit theory at the graduate school of MIT. Worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1941 to 1957, and in 1948 published A Mathematical Theory of Communication, co-authored with colleague W. Weaver. In this book, he defined the amount of information using the concept of entropy, building the foundations of modern information theory. Since 1957, he has been a professor at the MIT Institute of Technology. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
[生]1916.4.30. ミシガン,ゲイロード [没]2001.2.24. マサチューセッツ,メドフォード アメリカの応用数学者。ミシガン大学で電気工学と数学を学び,マサチューセッツ工科大学の大学院で電気回路理論を研究。 1941年より 57年までベル電話研究所に勤め,48年同僚の W.ウィーバーと共著で『コミュニケーションの数学的理論』を発表した。この本のなかで彼は,エントロピーの概念を使って情報量を定義し,現代の情報理論の基礎を築いた。 57年よりマサチューセッツ工科大学技術研究所教授。 出典 ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典について 情報 |
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