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Powers of Two (häftad, eng)
Is everything Information? This is a tantalizing question which emerges in modern physics, life sciences, astronomy and in todays inform...
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Is everything Information? This is a tantalizing question which emerges in modern physics, life sciences, astronomy and in todays information and technology-driven society. In Powers of Two expert authors undertake a unique expedition - in words and images - throughout the world (and scales) of information.
The story resembles, in a way, the classic Powers of Ten journeys through space: from us to the macro and the micro worlds . However, by following Powers of Two through the world of information, a completely different and timely paradigm unfolds.
Every power of two, 1, 2, 4, 8
. tells us a different story: starting from the creation of the very first bit at the Big Bang and the evolution of life, through 50 years of computational science, and finally into deep space, describing the information in black holes and even in the entire universe and beyond
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All this to address one question: Is our universe made of information? In this book, we experience the Information Universe in nature and in our society and how information lies at the very foundation of our understanding of the Universe.
From the Foreword by Robbert Dijkgraaf:
This book is in many ways a vastly extended version of Shannons one-page blueprint.
It carries us all the way to the total information content of the Universe. And it bears testimony of how widespread the use of data has become in all aspects of life. Information is the connective tissue of the modern sciences. [
] Undoubtedly, future generations will look back at this time, so much enthralled by Big Data and quantum computers, as beholden to the information metaphor.
But that is exactly the value of this book. With its crisp descriptions and evocative illustrations, it brings the reader into the here and now, at the very frontier of scientific research, including the excitement and promise of all the outstanding questions and future discoveries.
Message for the e-reader of the book Powers of Two
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| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 173 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2022-07-06 |
| ISBN | 9783030583477 |
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Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 173
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-07-06
- ISBN 9783030583477
- Förlag Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 173
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-07-06
- ISBN 9783030583477
- Förlag Springer Nature Switzerland AG