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Author Von Baeyer, Hans Christian, author.

Title Information : the new language of science / Hans Christian von Baeyer.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2005.
©2003

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  501.4 V891i 2005    ---  Available
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Description xiv, 258 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
Contents Electric rain : information in our lives -- The spell of Democritus : why information will transform physics -- In-formation : the roots of the concept -- Counting bits : the scientific measure of information -- Abstraction : beyond concrete reality -- The book of life : genetic information -- A battle among giants : reductionism and emergence -- The oracle of Copenhagen : science is about information -- Figuring the odds : how probability measures information -- Counting digits : the ubiquitous logarithm -- The message on the tombstone : the meaning of entropy -- Randomness : the flip side of information -- Electric information : from Morse to Shannon -- Noise : nuisance and necessity -- Ultimate speed : the information speed limit -- Unpacking information : the computer in the service of physics -- Bioinformatics : biology meets information technology -- Information is physical : the cost of forgetting -- The quantum gadget : quantum weirdness brought to light -- A game of beads : the wonder of superposition -- The Qubit : information in the quantum age -- Quantum computing : putting qubits to work -- Black holes : where information goes to hide -- Bits, bucks, hits and nuts : information theory beyond Shannon -- Zeilinger's principle : information at the root of reality.
Subject Communication in science.
Communication in science. (OCoLC)fst00870268
ISBN 0674018575 (pbk.)
9780674018570 (pbk.)

 
    
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