''Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes'' is the third non-fiction book by American author and journalist
Charles Seife
Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993), Greenwood, Katherin ...
. The book was initially published on January 30, 2007 by Viking.
Synopsis
In this book Seife concentrates on the
information theory
Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...
, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and
quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...
, works of
Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical compute ...
and
Schrödinger, entropy and superposition, etc.
Review
—''Salon''
Similar books on the information theory
* Leon Brillouin, ''Science and Information Theory'', Mineola, N.Y.: Dover,
956, 19622004.
*
James Gleick
James Gleick (; born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonficti ...
, ''
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood'', New York: Pantheon, 2011.
* A. I. Khinchin, ''Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory'', New York: Dover, 1957.
* H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex, Editors, ''Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing'', Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1990).
* Tom Siegfried, ''The Bit and the Pendulum'', Wiley, 2000.
* Jeremy Campbell, ''
Grammatical Man
''Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life'' is a 1982 book written by Jeremy Campbell, then Washington correspondent for the ''Evening Standard''. The book examines the topics of probability, information theory, cybernetics, ge ...
'', Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982,
* Henri Theil, ''Economics and Information Theory'', Rand McNally & Company - Chicago, 1967.
* Escolano, Suau, Bonev,
Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition', Springer, 2009.
*
Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has perfor ...
, ''
Programming the Universe'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
References
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