The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date /

"A new approach to understanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evo...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Arbesman, Samuel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2012.
Series:	Human body (Gareth Stevens Publishing)
Subjects:	Evolution. Science > Philosophy. Probabilities.