Understanding Information and Computation: From Einstein to Web Science
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| Beschreibung: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Yorick Wilks; Foreword by L.J. Rich; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Dot-to-Dots Point the Way; 5 Twists, Turns and Nature's Preference for Curves; 6 Curves of Curves; 7 To Process or Not?; 8 Information and Computation as a Field; 9 Why Are Conic Sections Important?; 10 The Gifts that Newton Gave, Turing Opened and Which No One Has Really Appreciated Yet; 11 Einstein's Torch Bearers; 12 Special Relativity; 13 General Relativity; 14 Beyond the Fourth Dimension 15 Time to Reformulate with a Little Help from Information Retrieval Research16 Supporting Evidence; 17 Where Does This Get Us?; References; Index The World Wide Web is the largest sociotechnical system humankind has ever seen; it has changed the way we interact, learn and innovate. Almost daily it appears to change, improve and increase its hold on us. We are, though, seeing underlying stability emerge. The way Web sites rank in popularity, for example, appears to follow familiar laws. These are not laws solely constrained to computer science or information technology, however, but are also seen in fundamental disciplines like biology, physics and mathematics. The Web, synthetic at its surface, seems to be quite 'natural' deeper down, an Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 409 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781409440406 1409440400 9781409440390 |
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