Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-LOTD-514E.08
- Title
- Game theory, decision theory I.: Information Theory
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- Course content
- For the latest version of the syllabus, please visit the Philosophy course catalogue: http://lps.elte.hu/courselist/ Content of the course: On capturing some of the intuitive concept of information in a definition; level of surprise and probability; entropy; Shannon’s source coding theorem; data compression; independent and identically distributed values; Huffman coding; Kolmogorov complexity; joint distributions; mutual information, conditional entropy; channel capacity; noisy channel source coding theorem; asymptotic equipartition property; typical sets; error correction and detection plus one or two special topics depending on time and class interest from: logical entropy, information in physics, cryptography or nature.