Mathematical Theory of Communication

This is the corrected version of an entry originally published as:Krippendorff, Klaus. "Mathematical Theory of Communication", In Encyclopedia ofCommunication Theory, S. W. Littlejohn & K. A. Foss (Eds). Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.pp. 614-618.by SAGE Publications, Inc.This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/169For more information, please contact repository@pobox.upenn.edu.