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This book’s topic are formal theories of information. It may be useful to start explaining this topic a little further, and then to say what the structure of the book is like and what motivates it, and finally how this book compares with other works grappling with the same or a similar topic.
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Sommaruga, G. (2009). Introduction. In: Sommaruga, G. (eds) Formal Theories of Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00659-3_1
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