A mathematical theory of communication is an article by mathematician claude e shannon published in bell system technical journal in 1948 it was renamed the mathematical theory of communication in the 1949 book of the same name a small but significant title change after realizing the generality of this work it became one of the most cited of all scientific articles and gave rise to the . I use the mathematical theory of communication in every professional piece of writing i undertake it underpins every edit to make sure the item remains as effective as possible its never let me down that said this isnt an accessible read theres a lot of maths here although you dont need to follow it all to understand the basic theory and if youre aged under 25 the communication . A mathematical theory of communication by c e shannon introduction t he recent development of various methods of modulation such as pcm and ppm which exchange bandwidth for signal to noise ratio has intensified the interest in a general theory of communication a basis for such a theory is contained in the important papers of nyquist1 and hartley2 on this subject in the present paper we . 4 the mathematical theory of communication equally well to music of any sort and to still or moving pictures as in television 12 three levels of communications problems relative to the broad subject of communication there seem to be problems atthree levels thus itseems reasonable to ask serially level a how accurately can the symbols . He recent development of various methods of modulation such as pcm and ppm which exchange bandwidth for signal to noise ratio has intensified the interest in a general theory of communication a basis for such a theory is contained in the important papers of nyquist1 and hartley2 on this subject in the present paper we will extend the theory to include a number of new factors in particular