information theory

English

Noun

information theory (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) 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 (contradistinction)
• information science (contradistinction)

Translations

branch of applied mathematics

• Arabic: نظريَة المعلومات‏‎
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資訊理論, 资讯理论 (zīxùn lǐlùn), 信息論 (zh), 信息论 (zh) (xìnxīlùn, xìnxílùn)

• Czech: teorie informace f
• Finnish: informaatioteoria (fi)
• French: théorie de l'information f
• German: Informationstheorie (de) f
• Hungarian: információelmélet (hu)

• Irish: teoiric eolais f, teoiric faisnéise f
• Khmer: ទ្រឹស្ដីពត៌មាន (trɨhsdəy pɔɔtamien)
• Persian: نظریه اطلاعات‏‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: teoria da informação f
• Romanian: teoria informației (ro) f
• Russian: тео́рия информа́ции (ru) f (teórija informácii)
• Spanish: teoría de la información f