June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
33h 24m
English
Markus Grassl
Max‐Planck‐Institut für die Physik des Lichts, Staudstraße 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Information theory establishes a framework for any kind of communication and information processing. It allows us to derive bounds on the complexity or cost of tasks such as storing information using the minimal amount of space or sending data over a noisy channel. It provides means to quantify information. So one may ask, “How much does someone know about what somebody else knows?” – a question which is important in cryptographic context. Before studying the new aspects that quantum mechanics adds to information theory in later chapters, we will have ...