Download or read book Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression, Third Edition written by Peter D. Johnson, Jr. and published by Chapman and Hall/CRC. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text imparts the fundamentals of both information theory and data compression. Although the two topics are related, this text allows either topic to be presented independently and the data compression section requires no previous knowledge of information theory. The treatment of information theory is theoretical and abstract but elementary.