Quantum Information Theory: Results and Open Problems
Peter W. Shor · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 2000
The discipline of information theory was founded by Claude Shannon in a truly remarkable paper [Sh] which laid down the foundations of the subject. We begin with a quote from this paper which is an excellent summary of the main concern of information theory: The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.