Author | : Harvey Leff |
File Size | : 50,5 Mb |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 13 December 2002 |
ISBN | : 9781420033991 |
Pages | : 494 pages |
Maxwell s Demon 2 Entropy Classical and Quantum Information Computing by Harvey Leff Book PDF Summary
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