The Information - James Gleick [256]
Glossographia: or a Dictionary (Blount), 3.1, 3.2
Gödel, Kurt, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, epl.1
Gödel’s Proof (Nagel, Newman)
Godfather (film)
“Gold Bug, The” (Poe)
Gongsun Long
Google, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, epl.1, epl.2
Gould, Glenn, 12.1, 12.2
Gould, Stephen Jay
gravity, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Gray, Elisha
Great Exhibition of 1851 (London)
Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 12.1
Greece, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Grover, Lov
Guare, John, epl.1, epl.2
Gutenberg Galaxy (McLuhan)
Guyot, Jules
Hamilton, W. D., 11.1, 11.2
Hammurabi
Hardy, G. H.
Hardy-Ramanujan number
Hart, Sarah
Hartley, Ralph, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Harvard University, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Hatto, Joyce
Havelock, Eric, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Hawking, Stephen, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
heat, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2; see also thermodynamics
Hein, Jon
Heisenberg, Werner, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1
Hennig, Richard
Henry, Joseph
Herschel, John, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
hieroglyphics, 2.1, 8.1
Hilbert, David, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Hobbes, Thomas, prl.1, 2.1
Hofstadter, Douglas R., 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Holland, Owen
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
holography
Homeric epics, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 11.1
Huffman, David
Huffman coding
Humphrey, Nicholas
Husbands, Philip
Husson, M.
I Am a Mathematician (Wiener)
iatroepidemics
IBM, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 14.2
ideas, compared to biosphere, 11.1, 11.2; see also memes
idiographic writing
Iliad (Homer)
images
compressibility of
memes as
recording of, 14.1, 14.2
imagination, 2.1n, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Imitation Game (Turing), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
incompleteness theorem
algorithmic proof of randomness and, 12.1, 12.2
chaos theory and, 12.1, 12.2
decision problem and, 7.1, 7.2
proof of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
significance of, 6.1, 6.2
Turing machine and
indexes, 15.1, 15.2, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
inductive reasoning
Infinities, The (Banville)
“Information Is Inevitably Physical” (Landauer)
“Information Is Physical” (Landauer)
information overload
in Borges’s “Library of Babel,” 14.1
e-mail and, 15.1, 15.2
filter and search strategies to prevent, 15.1, 15.2
historical fears of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
human–computer comparison of effects of
knowledge and, 15.1, 15.2
manifestations of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
meaning and, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4
psychological studies of, 15.1, 15.2
technological progress and, prl.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
information theory
attempts to add semantic counterpart to
on control of redundancy in messages, 7.1, 7.2
cryptography and
development in England, 8.1, 8.2
diagram of communication in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
genetic science and, prl.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
language as possibility in, epl.1, epl.2
measurement of information in, 7.1, 7.2
message value in, 12.1-3.1
noise source in, 7.1, 7.2
origins of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 7.1; see also Mathematical Theory of Communication, The (Shannon, Weaver)
physics and, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3
place of meaning in, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, epl.1, epl.2
response of wider scientific community to, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9
response to Shannon’s initial publication, 8.1, 8.2
significance of, prl.1, prl.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
in Soviet Union, 12.1, 12.2
system states in
theories of psychology and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
see also quantum information science
Internet, 11.1, 11.2, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
It from Bit (Wheeler), prl.1, 13.1
Jacobson, Homer
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie
Jacquard loom, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 12.1
James, William, 8.1, 8.2
János, Neumann; see John von Neumann
Jaynes, Julian, 2.1, 2.2
Jennings, Allan
Johannsen, Wilhelm
John of Salisbury
Johnson, John B.
Johnson, Samuel, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Johnstone, James
Joncourt, Élie de, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Jones, Alexander
Jonsson, Lars
Jowett, Benjamin