MATH 380Introduction to Information Theory with Applications
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1974–75; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Finite probabilistic schemes (experiments). Shannon’s Entropy as a measure of uncertainty and expected information. Fundamental properties of Shannon’s Entropy. Encoding and decoding. Optimal coding elementary problems in communication theory, programming and classification. Maximizing expected information; applications to problem solving in logic, linguistics representations of questionnaires. Applications to diagnostics, economics and social sciences. 398 Undergraduate Seminar 2 hours lectures 399 Reading in Mathematics 406 Linear Algebra 2 Continuation of linear algebra. Main topics; representations of endomorphisms, structures of bilinear forms, multilinear products. 2 hours lectures Prerequisite: M329 or M341
As printed in the 1973–74 to 1974–75 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
One post or comment in 1 thread mentions MATH 380, September 2020 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2020
Really liked CO380, what next? 13 points, 11 comments
“Took CO380 Mathematical Discovery and Invention last term and it's one of my favourite courses so far. …”
u/clew3: “Like what another commenter said, CO 480 (S2021) is supposedly similar in difficulty and that it's "Kinda CO but also kinda not CO". I too took 380 last term and loved it. …”
u/wstewartXYZ: “Neither course is really related to CO. I'm not sure why it's not MATH 380/480 instead.”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1973–74 to 1974–75 2 calendars
Finite probabilistic schemes (experiments). Shannon’s Entropy as a measure of uncertainty and expected information. Fundamental properties of Shannon’s Entropy. Encoding and decoding. Optimal coding elementary problems in communication theory, programming and classification. Maximizing expected information; applications to problem solving in logic, linguistics representations of questionnaires. Applications to diagnostics, economics and social sciences.
398 Undergraduate Seminar
2 hours lectures
399 Reading in Mathematics
406 Linear Algebra 2
Continuation of linear algebra. Main topics; representations of endomorphisms, structures of bilinear forms, multilinear products. 2 hours lectures Prerequisite: M329 or M341