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The theory of error-correcting codes stems from Shannon's 1948 _A mathematical theory of communication_, and from Hamming's 1950 "Error detecting and error correcting codes".

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Is there a Kolmogorov complexity proof of the prime number theorem?

I think it’s not uncommon for arguments in elementary number theory to be “philosophically” information-theoretic in nature. But this is not a very deep fact - at the end of the day it all comes down …
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