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About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical 'demon' as a challenge to the integrity 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. This book, Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, brings under one cover twenty-five reprints, including seminal works by James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein, Edward Daub and Peter Heimann; important contributions by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Dennis Gabor and Jerome Rothstein; and remarkable innovations by Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett. Until now this important material has been scattered throughout diverse journals. Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing makes the key literature easily available and helps with the cross-fertilisation of ideas in different disciplines. An annotated chronological bibliography provides a colourful perspective on Maxwell's demon and a rich trail of citations for further study. Available from Princeton University Press in the USA, Canada and Japan.
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Overview: Introduction. The demon and its properties. Szilard's model: entropy and information acquisition. Information acquisition via light signals: a temporary resolution. Computers and erasure of information: a new 1esolution. Other aspects of Maxwell's demon. Historical and philosophical considerations: The kinetic theory of the dissipation of energy (Thomson 1874). Maxwell's demon (Daub 1970). Molecular forces, statistical representation and Maxwell's demon (Heimann 1970). Maxwell, his demon, and the second law of thermodynamics (Klein 1970). Life, thermodynamics, and cybernetics (Brillouin 1949). Information, measurement, and quantum mechanics (Rothstein 1951). How subjective is entropy? (Denbigh 1981). On the relation between information and energy systems: a family of Maxwell's demons (Weinberg 1982). Maxwell's demon and information acquisition: on the decrease of entropy in a thermodynamic system by the intervention of intelligent beings (Szilard 1929). Maxwell's demon cannot operate: information and entropy (Brillouin 1951). The well-informed heat engine (Raymond 1951). Well-informed heat engine: efficiency and maximum power (Finfgeld/Machlup 1960). Some comments on entropy and information (Rodd 1964). Light and information (Gabor 1951). Entropy, information and Szilard's paradox (Jauch/Baron 1972). Information theory and thermodynamics (Costa de Beauregard /Tribus 1974). The operation of Maxwell's demon in a low entropy system (Rex 1987). Maxwell's demon, information erasure, and computing: Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process (Landauer 1961). Logical reversibility of computation (Bennett 1973). Maxwell's demon and computation (Laing 1973). The thermodynamics of computation: a review (Bennett 1982). Maxwell's demon, Szilard's engine and quantum measurements (Zurek 1984)). Computation: a fundamental physical view (Landauer 1987). Keeping the entropy of measurement: Szilard revisited (Lubkin 1987). Notes on the history of reversible computation (Bennett 1988). Chronological annotations and selected quotations. Alphabetical bibliography. Index.
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