The science of information from language to Black Holes
DVD - 2015
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- Published
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2015]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science ; Subtopic: Physics & chemistry"--Cover.
"Course no. 1301"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; full screen presentation; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501924309
- Disc 1: The transformability of information
- Computation and logic gates
- Measuring information-- Entropy and the average surprise
- Data compression and prefix-free codes
- Encoding images and sounds
- Disc 2: Noise and channel capacity
- Error-correcting codes
- Signals and bandwidth
- Cryptography and key entropy
- Cryptanalysis and unraveling the enigma
- Unbreakable codes and public keys
- Disc 3: What genetic information can do
- Life's origins and DNA computing
- Neural codes in the brain
- Entropy and microstate information
- Erasure cost and reversible computing
- Horse races and stock markets
- Disc 4: Turing machines and algorithmic information
- Uncomputable functions and incompleteness
- Qubits and quantum information
- Quantum cryptography via entanglement
- It from bit: physics from information
- The meaning of information.