Author : Harvey Leff
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420033999
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing by : Harvey Leff
Download or read book Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing written by Harvey Leff and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-13 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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