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Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing

Entropy, Information, Computing

Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing
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This second edition brings under one cover thirty-two reprints. Included are seminal works by James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein and Edward Daub; contributions by Leo Szilard and Leon Brillouin; linkages with the limits of computation by Rolf Landauer, Charles Bennett and Seth Lloyd; views of the demon using algorithmic information theory by Carleton Caves and Wojciech Zurek; examination of a quantum mechanical Maxwell's demon by Seth Lloyd. There are over 200 additions to the alphabetical and chronological bibliographies. A revised overview outlines the flurry of scholarly activity about Maxwell's demon since publication of the first edition.
CRC Press; December 2002
501 pages; ISBN 9781420033991
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