Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > social science subjects > communication and media studies > communication studies > communication theory > cybernetic and systems orientations > mathematical theory of communication

Preferred term

mathematical theory of communication  

Definition

  • Claude Shannon's mathematical theory of communication concerns quantitative limits of mediated communication. The theory has a history in cryptography and of measuring telephone traffic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Mathematical Theory of Communication]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MM2FBTK9-V

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD