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The discipline of information theory was founded by Claude Shannon in a truly remarkable paper [Sh] which laid down the foundations of the subject. We begin with a quote from this paper which is an excellent summary of the main concern of information theory:
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
A large part of this paper is included in the paper “Quantum Shannon Theory,” which appeared in the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter 50:3 (September 2000), 3–5 and 28–33.
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Shor, P. (2000). Quantum Information Theory: Results and Open Problems. In: Alon, N., Bourgain, J., Connes, A., Gromov, M., Milman, V. (eds) Visions in Mathematics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0425-3_9
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