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PHYS 4058 - Information Physics
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Course last offered
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Fall 2017/18
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Instructor(s)
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FOREMAN Bradley Alan
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No. of credits
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3
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Teaching Pattern
Content
- Probability theory
- Entropy in information theory
- Relative entropy and mutual information
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Instantaneous code and block code
- Data compression: Huffman code, portfolio management
- Introduction to Mathematical Finance: Options and Binomial tree
Remarks
- Prerequisite: PHYS 3031 or PHYS 4050
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