Complexity, entropy, and the physics of information : the proceedings of the Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information, held May-June, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Author(s)

• Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information
• Zurek, Wojciech Hubert

Bibliographic Information

Complexity, entropy, and the physics of information : the proceedings of the Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information, held May-June, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Wojciech H. Zurek, editor

（Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, v. 8）

Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1990

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A must have for those with a deep commitment to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and information theory.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Wojciech H. Zurek -- 1. Physics of information -- 2. Law of Physics and Law of Computation -- 3. Complexity and Evolution -- 4. Physics of Computation -- 5. Probability Entropy, and Quantum -- 6. Quantum Theory and Measurement -- Indices.

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Details

• NCID: BA10708627
• ISBN:
  • 0201515091
  • 0201515067
• LCCN: 90000643
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Reading, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 530 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC5.3
  • DC20 : 530.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Physics -- Information services
  • LCSH : Entropy
  • LCSH : Quantum theory
  • LCSH : Physical measurements
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04380199