In good condition but with some wear. The binding is tight and the pages are clean and intact. The book cover is clean and intact but has some blemishes and wear including scuffed, curling and/or frayed corners. ; 0 X 6 X 9 inches; 544 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0201515067
ISBN 13: 9780201515060
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.