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Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information Scott J. Muller

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information By Scott J. Muller

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information by Scott J. Muller


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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.

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information Summary

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information by Scott J. Muller

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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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)

About 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.

Table of Contents

Information.- Information and Distinguishability.- Information and Symmetry.- Conclusion.

Additional information

NLS9783642089329
9783642089329
3642089321
Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information by Scott J. Muller
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
2010-11-30
165
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