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
• information-theoretic death
• quantum information theory

Related terms

• informatics (contradistinction)
• information science (contradistinction)

Translations

branch of applied mathematics

• Arabic: نظريَة المعلومات
• Armenian: ինֆորմացիայի տեսություն (informacʻiayi tesutʻyun)
• Catalan: teoria de la informació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資訊理論 / 资讯理论 (zīxùn lǐlùn), 信息論 / 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 fhaisnéise f
• Japanese: 情報理論 (ja)
• Khmer: ទ្រឹស្ដីពត៌មាន (trɨhsdəy pɔɔtamien)
• Korean: 정보 이론(情報理論) (jeongbo iron)
• Persian: نظریه اطلاعات (fa)
• Portuguese: teoria da informação f
• Romanian: teoria informației (ro) f
• Russian: тео́рия информа́ции (ru) f (teórija informácii)
• Sicilian: tiurìa dâ nfurmazziuni f
• Spanish: teoría de la información f
• Swedish: informationsteori c
• Vietnamese: lý thuyết thông tin
• Welsh: damcaniaeth hysbysrwydd f