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The New Language of Science

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$28.00 • £24.95 • €25.95

ISBN 9780674018570

Publication Date: 11/30/2005

272 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

4 line illustrations

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Prologue: Really Big Questions
Background
- 1. Electric Rain: Information in Our Lives
- 2. The Spell of Democritus: Why Information Will Transform Physics
- 3. In-Formation: The Roots of the Concept
- 4. Counting Bits: The Scientific Measure of Information
- 5. Abstraction: Beyond Concrete Reality
- 6. The Book of Life: Genetic Information
- 7. A Battle among Giants: Reductionism and Emergence
- 8. The Oracle of Copenhagen: Science Is about Information
Classical Information
- 9. Figuring the Odds: How Probability Measures Information
- 10. Counting Digits: The Ubiquitous Logarithm
- 11. The Message on the Tombstone: The Meaning of Entropy
- 12. Randomness: The Flip Side of Information
- 13. Electric Information: From Morse to Shannon
- 14. Noise: Nuisance and Necessity
- 15. Ultimate Speed: The Information Speed Limit
- 16. Unpacking Information: The Computer in the Service of Physics
- 17. Bioinformatics: Biology Meets Information Technology
- 18. Information Is Physical: The Cost of Forgetting
Quantum Information
- 19. The Quantum Gadget: Quantum Weirdness Brought to Light
- 20. A Game of Beads: The Wonder of Superposition
- 21. The Qubit: Information in the Quantum Age
- 22. Quantum Computing: Putting Qubits to Work
- 23. Black Holes: Where Information Goes to Hide
Work in Progress
- 24. Bits, Bucks, Hits and Nuts: Information beyond Shannon
- 25. Zeilinger’s Principle: Information at the Root of Reality
Notes
Index

The New Language of Science