The half-life of facts
Subtitle: why everything we know has an expiration date
By: Samuel Arbesman
Publisher: Current
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781591844723
Subjects: MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General; Evolution; SCIENCE / General; Probabilities; Science; Philosophy
Description: "A new approach to uderstanding 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 evolution can enormously powerful"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.