Antoine Chambert-Loir is a professor of mathematics at Université Paris Cité. His research addresses questions in algebraic geometry which are motivated by number theoretical problems. He is the author of two books published by Springer-Verlag: A Field Guide To Algebra, an introduction to Galois theory; and (Mostly) Commutative Algebra, an intermediate-level exposition of commutative algebra. With  J. Nicaise and J. Sebag, he cowrote the research monograph Motivic Integration (published by Birkhäuser), which was awarded the 2017 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer prize.

Elements of Theory of Probability.- Entropy and Mutual Information.- Coding.- Sampling.- Solutions to Exercises.- Bibliography.- Notation.- Index.