目次

Preface.- I. Markov processes.- 1. Discrete time, countable space.- 2. Linear algebra and search engines.- 3. The Poisson process.- 4. Continuous time, discrete space.- 5. Examples.- II. Entropy and applications.- 6. Prelude: a user's guide to convexity.- 7. The basic quantities of information theory.- 8. An example of application: binary coding.- A. Some useful facts from calculus.- B. Some useful facts from probability.- C. Some useful facts from linear algebra.- D. An arithmetical lemma.- E. Table of exponential families.- References.- Index.