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Details for Professor Oliver Johnson
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Oliver Johnson |
| Job title | Professor of Information Theory |
| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maotj |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.A., Ph.D.(Cantab.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | probability information theory entropy statistics mathematics randomness odds gambling |
| Areas of expertise | My work involves a variety of theoretical problems in probability and statistics. My core research uses ideas from entropy theory to prove limit theorems in probability theory, to understand how randomness of systems cancels out and evolves. I have written popular articles on Information Theory - on data compression and links to gambling. |