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The course textbook is
"Elements of Information Theory", Thomas M. Cover
and Joy A. Thomas,
1991. Wiley, New York. £65.95
from amazon.co.uk (on 18 December 2002).
Copies are held in these libraries around Cambridge:
- Computer Laboratory (2 copies)
- Moore (Q360.C68)
- Rayleigh (39 C 13)
- University Library (431.c.99.163, South Front 6)
- Churchill College (003.54, 2 copies)
- Clare College (Forbes Mellon, 003.54 C3996 COV)
- Corpus Christi College (N.7.COV)
- Emmanuel College (621.8.COV(1))
- Fitzwilliam College (AZP N, 2 copies)
- Gonville and Caius College (Working, 003.54 C)
- Jesus College (AYP N)
- King's College (BU)
- Lucy Cavendish College (003.54 COV)
- Magdalene College (10.FA.93)
- Newnham College (802.8.COV)
- Pembroke College (510,110)
- Queens' College (BU)
- Robinson College (003.54 COV)
- Selwyn College (518)
- Sidney Sussex College (AYO O)
- St Catharine's College (513.2)
- Trinity Hall College (Jerwood, X.IV.133)
- Trinity College (RR 358 C 12)
Alternatives to the Course Textbook
You may download, free of charge, "Information
Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms", David
J. C. MacKay, 2002. This the textbook for David MacKay's
"Information Theory" course in the Physics Tripos.
Alternatively, you could consider buying a text book that is cheaper than Cover and Thomas. An example is:
However, be aware that an alternative book may miss out some of the syllabus.
The Computer Graphics and Image Processing text book "Digital Image
Processing", R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods has a whole chapter
(chapter 6 of the first edition, chapter 8 of the second edition) on
information theory and compression techniques as they relate to
images. This is useful auxilliary material.
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