The Information - James Gleick [252]
Bohr, Niels, prl.1, 6.1, 13.1
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 9.1, 9.2
Bombe machine
book burning
Boole, George, prl.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1
Borges, Jorge Luis, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1, epl.2
botanical dictionaries, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Bradley, Henry, 3.1, 3.2
Brahe, Tycho, 4.1, 15.1
brain; see neurophysiology
Brassard, Gilles, 13.1, 13.2
“Breakdown of Physics in Gravitational Collapse, The” (Hawking)
Brecht, Bertolt
Breguet, Abraham-Louis, 5.1, 5.2
Brenner, Sydney, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Brewster, David, 4.1, 8.1
Bridenbaugh, Carl, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Briggs, Henry, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Brillouin, Léon, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Brin, Sergey, 14.1, epl.1
Broadbent, Donald, 8.1, 8.2
Brosin, Henry
Brown, Robert
Browne, Thomas, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Brownian motion, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Buchanan, James
Bullokar, John
Burgess, Anthony
Burney, Venetia
Burton, Robert, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Bush, Vannevar, prl.1, prl.2, 5.1n, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
Butler, Samuel, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2
butterfly effect
Byron, Augusta Ada; see Lovelace, Ada
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 4.1, 4.2
bytes
Cage, John, 12.1, 12.2
Cairns-Smith, Alexander, 10.1, 10.2
calculators, calculating machines
analog and digital
Babbage’s Analytical Engine, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Babbage’s Difference Engine, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 6.1
definition of “calculation,” 7.1
Differential Analyzer, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
in evolution of information technology, prl.1, 4.1
use of relay circuits in
see also computation; computer(s); machines
calculus, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, epl.1
Campbell, George, prl.1, prl.2
“Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen)
Carnot, Nicolas Sadi
Carpenter, Margaret
Carreras, José
Carrington, John F., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Carroll, Lewis, 5.1, 5.2, 14.1
Carty, John J.
catalogues of information, 5.1, 14.1, 15.1
botanical, 14.1, 14.2
of cryptographic techniques
genes as, 10.1, 10.2
for libraries, 3.1, 3.2
search techniques for, 15.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
of telegraph messages
see also dictionaries
Catholicon (Balbus)
Cawdrey, Robert, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14
Cawdrey, Thomas
cellular processes, prl.1, prl.2, 9.1, 9.2
Celts
Central Dogma
“Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed” (Nyquist)
Chadwyck-Healey, Charles
chain letters, as examples of memes, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Chains (Karinthy)
Chaitin, Gregory, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.12, 12.13, 12.14, 12.15
Champernowne, David
Chandler, Raymond
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
channels
applications of information theory
definition of
multiplexed
psychological formulation
quantum, 13.1, 13.2
transmission capacity of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2
writing as, 2.1, 2.2
see also bandwidth
chaos theory, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1, 14.2
Chappe, Claude, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
Chappe, Ignace, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Chappe, Pierre
Chappe, René
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 4.1, 4.2
Cherry, Colin
chess-playing machines, 8.1, 8.2
China, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Chomsky, Noam
chromosomes, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
Churchill, Winston, prl.1, prl.2, 7.1
circularity
in defining words, 3.1, 3.2
Gödel’s critique of Principia Mathematica, 6.1
in paradoxes
Clark, Josiah Latimer
Clarke, Roger T.
classification, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2
Clausius, Rudolf, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Clauson-Thue, William, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Clement, Joseph, 4.1, 4.2
clocks, synchronization of, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
cloud, information, 14.1, 14.2
clustering
Clytemnestra
code
attempts to reduce cost of telegraphy, 5.1, 5.2
Babbage’s interest in
cipher and compression systems for telegraphy, 5.1, 5.2,