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In what area did Claude Shannon's mathematical theory become very well cited?
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Information theory is the study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. Claude Shannon's mathematical theory of information, which became very well cited in this area, is known as Shannon's information theory. The fundamental idea of Shannon's theory is that information can be quantified in terms of the number of bits needed to represent it.
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