Information : the new language of science /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Electric rain : information in our lives
- The spell of Democritus : why information will transform physics
- In-formation : the roots fo 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 Quiubit : 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.