Universal Compression and Retrieval

By Rafail Krichevsky, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk University, Russia. This volume constitutes a comprehensive self-contained course on source encoding.

Reader Yuriy R. says: A concise and rigorous course on universal source coding and universal information retrieval. Only suitable for math. oriented readers, graduate students, and researchers in these fields. Engineers expecting to find source-code of data compression algorithms shall look elsewhere.