📚 Information Theory

Shannon’s bit: entropy, channels and codes — the mathematics that measures what a message is worth.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject information theory in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Opera Aperta	Umberto Eco	1962	20
	Information systems	John G. Burch	1975	14
	The bias of communication	Harold Adams Innis	1951	13
	The Information	James Gleick	2011	13
	Principles of Spread-Spectrum Communication Systems	Don Torrieri	2004	10
	Human communication theory and research	Robert L. Heath	1992	9
	Fundamentals of Information Theory and Coding Design	Roberto Togneri	2002	9
	The Master Algorithm	Pedro Domingos	2015	9
	Mind Tools	Rudy Rucker	1987	8
	The pattern on the stone	W. Daniel Hillis	1998	8
	Introducing communication theory	Richard L. West	2000	8
	Quantum Information Theory	Mark M. Wilde	2013	8
	Data Science Handbook	Field Cady	2017	8
	Building Communication Theories	Fred L. Casmir	1994	7
	Conceptual structures in practice	Pascal Hitzler	2008	7
	Perspectives on Information	Magnus Ramage	2011	7
	Science and information theory	Leon Brillouin	1956	6
	Information theory	Colin Cherry	1956	6
	Information theory and statistics	Solomon Kullback	1959	6
	Grammatical man	Jeremy Campbell	1973	6
	Introduction to the theory of error-correcting codes	Vera Pless	1982	6
	Network Information Theory	Abbas El Gamal	2011	6
	Chemical thermodynamics and information theory with applications	Daniel J. Graham	2011	6
	A student's guide to coding and information theory	Stefan M. Moser	2012	6
	Information theory	Stanford Goldman	1953	5
	Information transmission, modulation, and noise	Mischa Schwartz	1959	5
	Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Informationstheorie	Werner Meyer-Eppler	1959	5
	Informationstheorie	Peter Fey	1964	5
	Communication theory & research	Denis McQuail	2005	5
	Elements of Information Theory	Thomas M. Cover	2006	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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