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100 1 _aMuller, Scott J.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAsymmetry: The Foundation of Information
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Scott J. Muller.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg,
_c2007.
300 _aVIII, 165 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe Frontiers Collection,
_x1612-3018
505 0 _aInformation -- Information and Distinguishability -- Information and Symmetry -- Conclusion.
520 _aAs 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.
650 0 _aComputer science.
650 0 _aCoding theory.
650 0 _aGroup theory.
650 0 _aMathematics.
650 0 _aComputer science
_xMathematics.
650 0 _aMathematical physics.
650 1 4 _aComputer Science.
650 2 4 _aCoding and Information Theory.
650 2 4 _aGroup Theory and Generalizations.
650 2 4 _aInformation and Communication, Circuits.
650 2 4 _aMathematical and Computational Physics.
650 2 4 _aComputational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783540698838
830 0 _aThe Frontiers Collection,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69884-5
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