Download or read book On Measures of Information and Their Characterizations written by Acze?l and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1975-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with measures of information (the most important ones being called entropies), their properties, and, reciprocally, with questions concerning which of these properties determine known measures of information, and which are the most general formulas satisfying reasonable requirements on practical measures of information. This is the first book investigating this subject in depth.