A Formal Theory of Information: I. Statics
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For Dr. Martin Harwit, whose course on information theory rst exposed me to the concept of entropy. 1. Introduction In this paper, I study \entropy" as a quantity deened axiomatically by certain formal properties, independently of any particular mathematical context. In particular , unlike all previous attempts to axiomatize information theory which are known to me, the concept of probability will play no role in the formal theory. I
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