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| View Larger Image | Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing (Maxwell's Demon)
by Harvey Leff, Andrew F. Rex
| | List Price: | $55.00 | | Price: | $50.36 | | You Save: | $4.64 (08%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 400556 | | Studio: | Taylor & Francis | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 502 | | Publication Date: | December 13, 2002 | | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
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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 these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science. Since the publication of Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing in 1990, Maxwell's demon has been the subject of renewed and increased interest by numerous researchers in the fields mentioned above. Updated and expanded, Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing retains many of the seminal papers that appeared in the first edition, including the original thoughts of James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; a historical review by Martin Klein; and key articles by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Rolf Landauer, and Charles Bennett that led to new branches of research on the demon. This second edition contains newer articles by Landauer, Bennett, and others, related to Landauer's principle; connections with quantum mechanics; algorithmic information; and the thermodynamics and limits of computation. The book also includes two separate bibliographies: an alphabetical listing by author and a chronological bibliography that is annotated by the editors and contains selected quotes from the books and articles listed. The bibliography has more than doubled in size since publication of the first edition and now contains over 570 entries. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)
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The Second Law 
A collection of articles that explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics by looking at its most famous violator. It contains articles by William Thompson (who had not yet been made Lord Kelvin), Leo Szilard, Charles Bennett, Rolf Landauer and a cartoon by Larry Gonick (a fragment of which, a grinning little demon sitting on Maxwell's shoulder, is on the cover). The modern solution to the paradox posed by the demon is that the erasure of previously stored information in order to make room for the result of the observation increases the entropy of the demon by at least as much as the entropy of the vessel is decreased. Read Feynman Lectures on Computation for more context.
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Clear, complete, and well-organized 
Maxwell's Demon 2 is one of the best books I've found in the field - the authors address key issues in a clear and engaging manner. This is an excellent and well-organized reference book and includes any number of original papers which are difficult to find through other sources. Highly recommended.
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