General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. The text has underlining and/or notations. Tear to edge of front cover. Foxing to textblock. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information

Publisher

Westview Press January 1990

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0201515067

ISBN 13

9780201515060

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

Good - Cash

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This book has emerged from a meeting held during the week of May 29 to June 2, 1989, at St. John’s College in Santa Fe under the auspices of the Santa Fe Institute. The (approximately 40) official participants as well as equally numerous “groupies” were enticed to Santa Fe by the above “manifesto.” The book―like the “Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information” meeting explores not only the connections between quantum and classical physics, information and its transfer, computation, and their significance for the formulation of physical theories, but it also considers the origins and evolution of the information-processing entities, their complexity, and the manner in which they analyze their perceptions to form models of the Universe. As a result, the contributions can be divided into distinct sections only with some difficulty. Indeed, I regard this degree of overlapping as a measure of the success of the meeting. It signifies consensus about the important questions and on the anticipated answers: they presumably lie somewhere in the “border territory,” where information, physics, complexity, quantum, and computation all meet.

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H. Zurek, Wojciech

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