T. Cover
Selected Papers on Information Theory

  1. Thomas M. Cover and Roger C. King. A Convergent Gambling Estimate of the Entropy of English. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-24(4):413--421, July 1978.

  2. Thomas M. Cover and Abbas El Gamal. An Information Theoretic Proof of Hadamard's Inequality. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-29(6):930--931, November 1983.

    A 3 line proof using the maximum entropy property of the Gaussian distribution.

  3. Amir Dembo, Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas. Information Theoretic Inequalities. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 37(6):1501-1518, November 1991.

    A proof based on Young's inequality and Renyi entropy simultaneously establishing the four matrix inequalities: Heisenberg uncertainty, Brunn-Minkowski, Cramer Rao, and the entropy power inequality.


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