Suz Reviews: The Information

7.01.2013

The Information

by James Gleick, 426 pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: A-

A book I throughly enjoyed as a physics major. Gleick spends a lot of time discussing the evolution of what we consider information, how it's communicated and the meta-information, or the information about information aka information theory. This means there's significant discussion of Charles Babbage and Claude Shannon, two individuals very familiar to my geek heart. At times the narrative goes off on tangents (usually interesting) sometimes into other centuries before looping back on itself. A read I would recommend for fellow scientists and engineers and anyone interested in information itself.

Labels: genre: historical, genre: non-fiction, genre: science, genre: social science, media: book

# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 8:07 AM

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In Between Now and Then (music);
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Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (movie);
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