Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information [electronic resource] / by Scott J. Muller.
Material type: TextSeries: The Frontiers CollectionPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007Edition: 1st ed. 2007Description: VIII, 165 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540698845
- Coding theory
- Information theory
- Group theory
- Computer science—Mathematics
- Mathematical physics
- Mathematics—Data processing
- Coding and Information Theory
- Group Theory and Generalizations
- Mathematical Applications in Computer Science
- Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
- Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
- 003.54 23
- QA268
- Q350-390
Information -- Information and Distinguishability -- Information and Symmetry -- Conclusion.
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.
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