Maxwell's Demon : : Entropy, Information, Computing / / ed. by Andrew F. Rex, Harvey S. Leff.
About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and comput...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series in Physics ;
45 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments and Copyright Information
- CHAPTER 1. Overview
- CHAPTER 2. Historical and Philosophical Considerations
- CHAPTER 3. Maxwell's Demon and Information Acquisition
- CHAPTER 4. Maxwell's Demon, Information Erasure, and Computing
- Chronological Bibliography with Annotations and Selected Quotations
- Alphabetical Bibliography
- Index