Science from Fisher Information: A Unification

ISBN-13: 9780521009119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 504 str.

B. Roy Frieden

Opis

This work shows that information is at the root of all fields of science. These fields may be generated by use of the concept of "extreme physical information" or EPI. The book greatly expands the material in Physics from Fisher Information to include many other areas in science.

Recenzje

'This is a delightful and very well written postgraduate level text, which should be of interest to a wide audience including physicists and philosophers. It is a landmark book whose ideas will be discussed and hopefully will be further developed in the future, as it provides a brand new framework to interpret the laws of nature.' Contemporary Physics

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. What is Fisher information?; 2. Fisher information in a vector world; 3. Extreme physical information; 4. Derivation of relativistic quantum mechanics; 5. Classical electrodynamics; 6. The Einstein field equation of general relativity; 7. Classical statistical physics; 8. Power spectral 1/f noise; 9. Physical constants and the 1/x probability law; 10. Constrained-likelihood quantum measurement theory; 11. Research topics; 12. EPI and entangled realities: the EPR-Bohm experiment; 13. Econophysics; 14. Growth and transport processes; 15. Cancer growth.