Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information (2007) (The Frontiers Collection)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2007
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783540698845
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783540698838
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Date of Addition:
- 08/02/22
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Earth Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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