TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muller,Scott J.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information
T2  - The Frontiers Collection,
SN  - 9783540698845
AV  - QA268 
U1  - 003.54 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Coding theory
KW  - Group theory
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathematical physics
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Coding and Information Theory
KW  - Group Theory and Generalizations
KW  - Information and Communication, Circuits
KW  - Mathematical and Computational Physics
KW  - Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
N1  - Information -- Information and Distinguishability -- Information and Symmetry -- Conclusion
N2  - As individual needs have arisen in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and computational science, each has created its own theories of information to serve as conceptual instruments for advancing developments. This book provides a coherent consolidation of information theories from these different fields. The author gives a survey of current theories and then introduces the underlying notion of symmetry, showing how information is related to the capacity of a system to distinguish itself. A formal methodology using group theory is employed and leads to the application of Burnside's Lemma to count distinguishable states. This provides a versatile tool for quantifying complexity and information capacity in any physical system. Written in an informal style, the book is accessible to all researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, computational science as well as many others
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69884-5
ER  -