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Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing (Hardcover)
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Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing (Hardcover)
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Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical
"demon" as a challenge to the scope of the second law of
thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the
development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory,
and computer science, and links have been established between
Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's
seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists,
engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and
historians and philosophers of science. Since the publication of
Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing in 1990, Maxwell's
demon has been the subject of renewed and increased interest by
numerous researchers in the fields mentioned above. Updated and
expanded, Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum
Information, Computing retains many of the seminal papers that
appeared in the first edition, including the original thoughts of
James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; a historical review by
Martin Klein; and key articles by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Rolf
Landauer, and Charles Bennett that led to new branches of research
on the demon. This second edition contains newer articles by
Landauer, Bennett, and others, related to Landauer's principle;
connections with quantum mechanics; algorithmic information; and
the thermodynamics and limits of computation. The book also
includes two separate bibliographies: an alphabetical listing by
author and a chronological bibliography that is annotated by the
editors and contains selected quotes from the books and articles
listed. The bibliography has more than doubled in size since
publication of the first edition and now contains over 570 entries.
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