Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working days, to be shewing the RELICKS OF LEARNING, as monks do the relicks of their saints without working one one single miracle with them? Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy This book deals with information processing; so it is far from being a book on information theory (which would be built on description and estimation). The reader will be shown the horse, but not the saddle. At any rate, at the very beginning, there was a series of lectures on Information theory, through the looking-glass of an algebraist, and, as...

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working days, to be shewing the RELICKS OF LEARNING, as monks do the relicks of their saints without working one one single miracle with them? Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy This book deals with information processing; so it is far from being a book on information theory (which would be built on description and estimation). The reader will be shown the horse, but not the saddle. At any rate, at the very beginning, there was a series of lectures on Information theory, through the looking-glass of an algebraist, and, as...

This book is purely algebraic and concentrates on cyclic homology rather than on cohomology. It attempts to single out the basic algebraic facts and techniques of the theory.The book is organized in two chapters. The first chapter deals with the intimate relation of cyclic theory to ordinary Hochschild theory. The second chapter deals with cyclic homology as a typical characteristic zero theory.