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John R. Pierce

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in Des Moines, Iowa, The United States

March 27, 1910

Died

April 02, 2002

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	An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics) 3.90 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets by John R. Pierce, Jim Writer 3.73 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Musical Sound 3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signals: The Science of Telecommunications by John R. Pierce, A. Michael Noll 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Almost All About Waves (Dover Books on Physics) 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Symbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electrons and Waves 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waves and the Ear by John R. Pierce, Edward E. David, Willem André Maria van Bergeijk 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction to Communication Science and Systems by John R. Pierce, Edward C. Posner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“communication theory grew out of the study of electrical communication,”
― John Robinson Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

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“The amount of information conveyed by the message increases as the amount of uncertainty as to what message actually will be produced becomes greater. A message which is one out of ten possible messages conveys a smaller amount of information than a message which is one out of a million possible messages. The entropy of communication theory is a measure of this uncertainty and the uncertainty, or entropy, is taken as the measure of the amount of information conveyed by a message from a source. The more we know about what message the source will produce, the less uncertainty, the less the entropy, and the less the information.”
― John Robinson Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

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“The lesson provided by Morse’s code is that it matters profoundly how one translates a message into electrical signals. This matter is at the very heart of communication theory.”
― John Robinson Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

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