Recent content by chrisaldrich

Category Theory certainly isn't useless, and has some really beautiful and interesting things going on. One of the bigger issues it has is that it is relatively so young as a discipline within math. (Imagine what people said about set theory in 1910.) Your toughest hurdle as an undergraduate...

For information theoretic specific textbooks on probability you might try the ones by Paul Pfeiffer or one of the two by Alfred Renyi. All three are excellent and have the added benefit of being published by Dover so they're relatively inexpensive. Pfeiffer's is more conversational and thus...

There isn't anything brilliant which does all of those things singularly. It sounds like you're trying to find something far too specific on an awfully large category of topics, particularly given your level of knowledge. You might try starting with some of the following: John Robinson...