information theory

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === information theory (uncountable) (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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== informatics (contradistinction) information science (contradistinction) ==== Translations ====