''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 Charles Seife is an American author and journalist, and a professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics. Career Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993),Greenwood, Kath ...

. The book was initially published on January 30, 2007 by Viking.

Synopsis

In this book Seife concentrates on the

information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...

, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and

quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, ...

, works of

Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalysis, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and mathematical and theoretical biology, theoretical biologist. Turing was high ...

and Schrödinger, entropy and superposition, etc.

Review

—''Salon''

Similar books on the information theory

* Leon Brillouin, ''Science and Information Theory'', Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 956, 19622004. *

James Gleick James Gleick (; born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonficti ...

, '' The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood'', 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 ''Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life'' is a 1982 book written by the Evening Standard's Washington correspondent, Jeremy Campbell. The book touches on topics of probability, Information Theory, cybernetics, genetics and l ...

'', 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 Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has perform ...

, ''

Programming the Universe ''Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos'' is a 2006 popular science book by Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book proposes that the Universe is ...

'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

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