Information, Entropy, Life And The Universe: What We Know And What We Do Not Know

Arieh Ben-naim (The Hebrew Univ Of Jerusalem, Israel)

Information, Entropy, Life And The Universe: What We Know And What We Do Not Know
Format
Hardback
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country
Singapore
Published
18 May 2015
Pages
492
ISBN
9789814651660

Information, Entropy, Life And The Universe: What We Know And What We Do Not Know

Arieh Ben-naim (The Hebrew Univ Of Jerusalem, Israel)

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy - two of the most frequently discussed topics in recent literature - and whether they are relevant to life and the entire universe.Entropy is commonly interpreted as a measure of disorder. This interpretation has caused a great amount of ‘disorder’ in the literature. One of the aims of this book is to put some ‘order’ in this ‘disorder’.The book explains with minimum amount of mathematics what information theory is and how it is related to thermodynamic entropy. Then it critically examines the application of these concepts to the question of ‘What is life?’ and whether or not they can be applied to the entire universe.

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