Decoding the Universe
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 Softcover edition | |
| Author | Charles Seife |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Information theory |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Viking/Penguin Group |
Publication date | January 30, 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 304 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0143038399 |
| Preceded by | Alpha & Omega (2000) |
| Followed by | Sun in a Bottle (2008) |
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.[1][2][3]
Synopsis
In this book Seife concentrates on the information theory, discussing various issues, such as relationships of entropy and probability with information, relativity and quantum mechanics, works of Turing and Schrodinger.
Review
Other books
- Leon Brillouin, Science and Information Theory, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, [1956, 1962] 2004. ISBN 0-486-43918-6
- James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, New York: Pantheon, 2011. ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7
- A. I. Khinchin, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory, New York: Dover, 1957. ISBN 0-486-60434-9
- H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex, Editors, Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1990). ISBN 0-691-08727-X
- Tom Siegfried, The Bit and the Pendulum, Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0-471-32174-5
- Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-44062-4
- Henri Theil, Economics and Information Theory, Rand McNally & Company - Chicago, 1967.
- Escolano, Suau, Bonev, Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84882-296-2
References
- ^ "Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife". amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
- ^ "Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife". thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
- ^ "Review of "Decoding the Universe" by Charles Seife". rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com. April 27, 2009.
- ^ MILLER, LAURA (March 6, 2006). "Secrets of the Cosmos". salon.com. Retrieved 2015-07-23.