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The article entitled '"A Mathematical Theory of Communication"', published in 1948 by mathematician Claude E. Shannon, was one of the founding works of the field of information theory. Shannon's paper laid out the basic elements of any digital communication:

★ An information source which produces a message

★ A transmitter which operates on the message to create a signal which can be sent through a channel

★ A channel, which is the medium over which the signal, carrying the information that composes the message, is sent

★ A receiver, which transforms the signal back into the message intended for delivery

★ A destination, which can be a person or a machine, for whom or which the message is intended
It also developed the concepts of information entropy and redundancy.

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★ C.E. Shannon, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", ''Bell System Technical Journal'', vol. 27, pp. 379-423, 623-656, July, October, 1948, Eprint, PDF