information theory

Noun

 * 1)  A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.

Derived terms

 * algorithmic information theory
 * quantum information theory

Related terms

 * informatics
 * information science

Translations

 * Arabic: نظريَة المعلومات
 * Armenian: ինֆորմացիայի տեսություն
 * Catalan: teoria de la informació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 資訊理論,
 * Czech: teorie informace
 * Finnish:
 * French: théorie de l'information
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: teoiric eolais, teoiric fhaisnéise
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ទ្រឹស្ដីពត៌មាន
 * Korean: 정보 이론(情報理論)
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: teoria da informação
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: tiurìa dâ nfurmazziuni
 * Spanish: teoría de la información
 * Swedish: informationsteori
 * Vietnamese: lý thuyết thông tin
 * Welsh: damcaniaeth hysbysrwydd