Title: Information : the new language of science /
Authors: Von Baeyer, Hans Christian.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Communication in science.; Communication; Science; Information Theory
Contents: Electric rain : information in our lives -- The spell of Democritus : why information will transform physics -- In-formation : the roots of 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 Qubit : 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.