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Judson, Horace Freeland
Just, Ward
Kahn, David
Karinthy, Frigyes
Kele language, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kepler, Johannes
Kermode, Frank, 2.1, 2.2
Keynes, John Maynard
Khwarizmi, Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn Musa al-
Kierkegaard, Søren
King, August Ada; see Lovelace, Ada
King, William
Klüver, Heinrich
knowledge
curse of omniscience, epl.1, epl.2
emergence of global consciousness, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
epistemological theory of information
information overload and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
limits to scientific investigation, 12.1, 12.2
in literate cultures, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
power of
as product of logic
requirements for communication, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
transmission of, through human history, prl.1, prl.2
Knuth, Donald, 2.1, 2.2
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8
Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Konversations-Lexikon, epl.1
Lacroix, Sylvestre François
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Landauer, Rolf, 13.1, 13.2
Landowska, Wanda
Landsberg, Peter
Lane, Anthony, 15.1, 15.2
language
adaptations for telegraphy, 5.1, 5.2
Babbage’s work on, 4.1, 4.2
compressibility of
concept of mind and
for discussing language, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
functions of, 5.1, 5.2
as infinite possibility, epl.1, epl.2
limitations of
measuring redundancy in, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
paradoxes of, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
pattern analysis
perfect
redundancy in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1
as shared experience
statistical structure of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
symbolic expression of, 5.1, 5.2
technical, 3.1, 3.2
transmission capacity of Internet and, 3.1, 3.2
universal, 4.1, 6.1
see also oral culture; writing; specific language
Language Instinct, The (Pinker), 3.1, 3.2
Lanier, Jaron
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 14.1, 14.2
Lardner, Dionysius, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2
Lasker, Edward
Latin language, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Laws of Thought, The (Boole), 5.1, 5.2
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 15.1, epl.1
Lem, Stanislaw
Le Roy, Édouard
Le Sage, Georges-Louis
Lever, Ralph
Levor, Norma, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Leyland numbers
Li, Ming, 11.1, 11.2
liar’s paradox
libraries, organization of materials in, 3.1, 3.2, 15.1
Library of Alexandria, 14.1, 14.2
“Library of Babel, The” (Borges), 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, epl.1, epl.2
Library of Congress, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1
Licklider, J. C. R., 8.1, 8.2
life
definition of, 9.1, 9.2
entropy and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
origins of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
as vehicle for propagating memes
see also biology
lighthouses
Linnaeus, Carl
Littlewood, J. E.
Lloyd, Seth, prl.1, 13.1, 14.1
Locke, John
Loewenstein, Werner, prl.1, 10.1
Logarithmicall Arithmetike (Briggs)
logarithms, 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, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 7.1, 7.2
Logarithms (Taylor)
logic
circularity problem of words, 3.1, 3.2
concept of machines using, 7.1, 7.2
form of thinking for, 2.1, 2.2
function of, 2.1, 2.2
origins and early development of, 2.1, 2.2
paradoxes of, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
thought and, 5.1, 5.2
writing and, 2.1, 2.2
see also symbolic logic
logical depth, 12.1, 12.2
logographic writing
Lokele tribe
longitude, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Lovelace, Ada, 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, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
background of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
exposition on Menabrea’s essay, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
illnesses and death of, 4.1, 4.2
mathematics studied by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Luria, Aleksandr Romanovich, 2.1, 2.2
Lyell, Charles
Lysenko, Trofim
Ma, Bin, 11.1, 11.2
machines
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
attribution of thinking to, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6,