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This book gathers concepts of information across diverse fields --physics, electrical engineering and computational science -- surveying current theories, discussing underlying notions of symmetry, and showing how the capacity of a system to distinguish itself relates to information. The author develops a formal methodology using group theory, leading to the application of Burnside's Lemma to count distinguishable states. This provides a tool to quantify complexity and information capacity in any physical system.

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Author:   Scott J. Muller
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642089329

ISBN 10:   3642089321
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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From the reviews: The author is concerned with the meaning of the term 'information'. He discusses theories of information that arise in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, communication theory, and in complexity theory. ! The book is more a contribution to epistemology ! . (L. L. Campbell, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 k)

From the reviews: The author is concerned with the meaning of the term `information'. He discusses theories of information that arise in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, communication theory, and in complexity theory. ... The book is more a contribution to epistemology ... . (L. L. Campbell, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 k)

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"Scott Muller graduated from the University of Queensland in Chemical Engineering specialising in biotechnology. He worked in Australia and Italy in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. In 2004 he received his doctorate from the University of Newcastle (Australia) where he studied the foundations of information and conducted research into the nature of ""emergence"". Recently he has worked on automated reasoning and expert systems in the telecommunications industry. Scott is currently developing industrial, adaptive decision-making systems using evolutionary programming techniques."

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