Decoding the Universe explained

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes is the third non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife.^{[1] [2] [3]} The book was initially published on January 30, 2007 by Viking.

Synopsis

In this book Seife concentrates on the information theory, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and quantum mechanics, works of Turing and Schrödinger, entropy and superposition, etc.

Review

—Salon^[4]

Similar books on the information theory

• Leon Brillouin, Science and Information Theory, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, [1956, 1962] 2004.
• James Gleick, , New York: Pantheon, 2011.
• A. I. Khinchin, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory, New York: Dover, 1957.
• H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex, Editors, Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1990).
• Tom Siegfried, The Bit and the Pendulum, Wiley, 2000.
• Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982,
• Henri Theil, Economics and Information Theory, Rand McNally & Company - Chicago, 1967.
• Escolano, Suau, Bonev, Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2009.
• Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Notes and References

1. Book: Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife. 30 January 2007. Penguin Books. 2015-07-23.
2. Web site: Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife. thefreelibrary.com. 2015-07-23.
3. Web site: Review of "Decoding the Universe" by Charles Seife. rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com. April 27, 2009 .
4. Web site: Secrets of the Cosmos. salon.com. 2015-07-23. March 6, 2006. LAURA. MILLER.