Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book gathers concepts of information across diverse fields -physics, electrical engineering and computational science - surveying current theories, discussing underlying notions of symmetry, and showing how the capacity of a system to distinguish...
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This book gathers concepts of information across diverse fields -physics, electrical engineering and computational science - surveying current theories, discussing underlying notions of symmetry, and showing how the capacity of a system to distinguish itself relates to information. The author develops a formal methodology using group theory, leading to the application of Burnside's Lemma to count distinguishable states. This provides a tool to quantify complexity and information capacity in any physical system.
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As individual needs have arisen in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and computational science, each has created its own theories of information to serve as conceptual instruments for advancing developments. This book provides a coherent consolidation of information theories from these different fields. The author gives a survey of current theories and then introduces the underlying notion of symmetry, showing how information is related to the capacity of a system to distinguish itself. A formal methodology using group theory is employed and leads to the application of Burnside's Lemma to count distinguishable states. This provides a versatile tool for quantifying complexity and information capacity in any physical system. Written in an informal style, the book is accessible to all researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, computational science as well as many others.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information “
Information.- Information and Distinguishability.- Information and Symmetry.- Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Scott J. Muller
Scott Muller graduated from the University of Queensland in Chemical Engineering specialising in biotechnology. He worked in Australia and Italy in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. In 2004 he received his doctorate from the University of Newcastle (Australia) where he studied the foundations of information and conducted research into the nature of "emergence". Recently he has worked on automated reasoning and expert systems in the telecommunications industry. Scott is currently developing industrial, adaptive decision-making systems using evolutionary programming techniques.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Scott J. Muller
- 2010, VIII, 165 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3642089321
- ISBN-13: 9783642089329
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
From the reviews: "The author is concerned with the meaning of the term 'information'. He discusses theories of information that arise in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, communication theory, and in complexity theory. ... The book is more a contribution to epistemology ... ." (L. L. Campbell, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 k)
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