Theory. Law. These scientific words get bandied about regularly, yet the general public usually gets their meaning wrong. Now, one scientist is arguing that people should do away with these ...

THE object of this communication is to show that a certain remarkably simple experimental relation governing word-frequencies in language can be explained by a simple model of the process of ...

The word game he then created ... Mathematician Claude Shannon, founder of information theory, recognized this and defined a measure of information content with this relationship in mind.