The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes

by Benjamin Schumacher

Streaming video, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

003.54

Collection

Publication

Great Courses (2015), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 362 pages

Description

"Information surrounds us. But what is it? Explore the science of information in this wide-ranging course that will change the way you see the world."--

Language

Original language

English

Local notes

[01] The Transformability of Information [02] Computation and Logic Gates [03] Measuring Information [04] Entropy and the Average Surprise [05] Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes [06] Encoding Images and Sounds [07] Noise and Channel Capacity [08] Error-Correcting Codes [09] Signals and Bandwidth [10] Cryptography and Key Entropy [11] Cryptanalysis and Unraveling the Enigma [12] Unbreakable Codes and Public Keys [13] What Genetic Information Can Do [14] Life's Origins and DNA Computing [15] Neural Codes in the Brain [16] Entropy and Microstate Information [17] Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing [18] Horse Races and Stock Markets [19] Turing Machines and Algorithmic Information [20] Uncomputable Functions and Incompleteness [21] Qubits and Quantum Information [22] Quantum Cryptography via Entanglement [23] It from Bit] Physics from Information [24] The Meaning of Information

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