Good book on entropy and information theory

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Hello,

I would like someone to suggest me a good book on entropy and information theory.

I need something that explains these subjects intuitively, rather than all mathematics.

I have fairly strong knowledge of mathematics behind entropy, but all is kind of scrambled what is what.

Thanks
 
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"An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise" by Pierce
 
Thank you kind sir, will definitely try to find it at my college.
 
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