CONTENTS
Preface
1 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION THEORY
Information Content in a Signal
Entropy and Shannon’s Information Theory
Linear Combinations of Vectors
Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization
The Cauchy-Schwartz and Triangle Inequalities
Representations of Operators Using Matrices
Outer Products and Matrix Representations
Matrix Representation of Operators in Two-Dimensional Spaces
Definition: The Pauli Matrices
Hermitian, Unitary, and Normal Operators
Definition: Hermitian Operator
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