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- Consolidates diverse existing theories of information
- Accessible to non-specialists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Authors and Affiliations
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Suite 145 National Innovation Centre, Bernoulli Systems, Eveleigh, Australia
Scott J. Muller
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information
Authors: Scott J. Muller
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69884-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69883-8Published: 15 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08932-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69884-5Published: 11 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 165
Topics: Coding and Information Theory, Group Theory and Generalizations, Information and Communication, Circuits, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis