''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. 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 scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and Claude Shannon in the 1940s. ...
, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and
quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, q ...
, works of
Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical com ...
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'', 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 perfo ...
, ''
Programming the Universe'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
References
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