An Introduction To Information Theory, Symbols, Signals And Noise Av John R. Pierce

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein''s realization that black holes have entropy. Stephen Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information...

In simple language, without mathematics, this book explains the strange and exciting ideas that make the subatomic world so different from the world of the every day. It offers the general reader access to one of the greatest discoveries in the history...