Numbers, Information and Complexity is a collection of
about 50 articles in honour of Rudolf Ahlswede. His main areas of
research are represented in the three sections, Numbers and
Combinations'', Information Theory (Channels and Networks,
Combinatorial and Algebraic Coding, Cryptology, with the related
fields Data Compression, Entropy Theory, Symbolic Dynamics,
Probability and Statistics)'', and Complexity''.

Special attention was paid to the interplay between the fields.
Surveys on topics of current interest are included as well as new
research results.

The book features surveys on Combinatorics about topics such as
intersection theorems, which are not yet covered in textbooks, several
contributions by leading experts in data compression, and relations to
Natural Sciences are discussed.