scientific article; zbMATH DE number 177661

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0752.00018.] This is a good review paper in the field of metric entropy. Emphasis is placed on the information approach in the investigation of properties of compact sets. The main notions here are \(\varepsilon\)-entropy and \(\varepsilon\)-complexity of compact sets, which were first systematically studied by A. N. Kolmogorov. One of the most interesting results was the solution by Kolmogorov and V. I. Arnol'd of Hilbert's 13th problem about the representation of an analytical function of three variables in the form of a superposition of continuous functions of two variables. Ideas relative to the \(\varepsilon\)-entropy proved to be very fruitful in various fields of mathematics, from approximation theory to dynamical systems theory. The paper describes the main notions and the most important results obtained in this approach.











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