Transmitting and Gaining Data

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The calculation of channel capacities is a key focus of Rudolf Ahlswede's second volume in his Lectures on Information Theory. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of classical material from the early days of Information Theory, highlighting developments from the USA, Russia, Hungary, and notably the German school associated with his supervisor, Konrad Jacobs. Ahlswede's lectures aim to rigorously justify the foundations of Information Theory. Each volume includes insights from a distinguished expert, with Gerhard Kramer contributing to this one. The core of classical information processing involves acquiring knowledge and the storage, transmission, and concealment of data. The primary goal of Statistics aligns with knowledge acquisition, while Shannon's groundbreaking work established Information Theory, grounded in probabilistic models for data transmission and concealment. This theory emphasizes codes with minimal error probabilities despite transmission noise, modeled by channels. The lectures are designed for graduate students in Mathematics and those in Theoretical Computer Science, Physics, and Electrical Engineering with a foundational understanding of Mathematics. They serve as a basis for courses or as supplementary material. Ph.D. students will encounter research problems and conjectures suitable for thesis topics, while advanced researchers may discover questions that could lead to extensive research progra