The Information - James Gleick [260]
Occam’s razor
Odyssey (Homer), 2.1, 11.1
Ogilvie, Brian, 14.1, 15.1
Ohm, Georg
Ong, Walter J., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
oral culture(s), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9
Oxford English Dictionary, 3.1, 9.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
additions and revisions to, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
editions of
goals of, 3.1, 3.2
growth of language and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
online, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
sources of words and definitions for
spelling of words in, 3.1, 3.2
Page, Larry, 14.1, epl.1
Palme, Jacob, 15.1, 15.2
Palmer, Dexter, epl.1, epl.2
paper, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2
paradox(es)
Barber
Berry’s, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1
challenges for symbolic logic, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
of distance in cyberspace
Epimenides’
Gödel’s insight into, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
of language and logic, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
liar’s
mathematics as solution to
of perpetual motion, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Russell’s, 6.1, 6.2
self-referencing as basis of, 6.1, 6.2
of smallest uninteresting number, 12.1, 12.2
parallel processing, 4.1, 4.2
Parker, Moses Greeley
Parry, Milman
Pascal, Blaise
patterns
distinguished from randomness, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
recognition of, in cryptography, 7.1, 7.2
in valuation of messages, 12.1, 12.2
in Voyager spacecraft messages, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Pauli, Wolfgang
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Peacock, George
Peel, Robert, 4.1, 4.2
Peres, Asher, 13.1, 13.2
Perks, William George
perpetual motion machines, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
perturbation studies
petroglyphs
pharmaceutical industry, 14.1, 14.2
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton), 4.1, 6.1, 14.1
Philosophy of Decyphering, The (Babbage)
phonemes, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1
photographic images, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
physics, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, prl.5, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, 13.2; see also quantum physics; thermodynamics
pi, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Pickering, John
pictographs
Pierce, John Robinson, prl.1, 8.1
Pinker, Steven, 3.1, 3.2
planimeter
Plato, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Pliny, 2.1, 6.1
Pluto, 3.1, 3.2
PM (formal system), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Pocket Telegraphic Code, 5.1
Podolsky, Boris
Poe, Edgar Allan, prl.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 14.1
poetry, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Poincaré, Henri, 9.1, 12.1
polarization states, 13.1, 13.2
Pope, Alexander
Porsche
Preece, William
Preskill, John, 13.1, 13.2
Prime Computer
prime numbers, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Primrose, Frank
Prince
Princeton University, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Principia Mathematica (Russell, Whitehead), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
Principles of Psychology (James)
Printing Press as an Agent of Change, The (Einstein)
printing technology, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
probability
calculations for control of redundancy in messages, 7.1, 7.2
in measurement of information, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 12.1
as problem for quantum computing, 13.1, 13.2
qualities of randomness and
statistical analysis of language, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
in stochastic processes
in thermodynamics, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Turing’s ban unit of, 7.1, 7.2
Problems of Information Transmission, 12.1, 12.2
programming
to generate random numbers, 12.1, 12.2
Lovelace’s operations for Analytical Engine as, 4.1, 4.2
of Turing machine states, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
proteins, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
pseudorandom numbers
psyche
Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory
psychology, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9
Pulgram, Ernst
quadratic equations
quantum information science
computing based on, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
conceptual basis, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
entanglement in, prl.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
first encoded message based on, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
future applications of
measurement units in, 13.1, 13.2
problem of black holes in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
scope of, prl.1, prl.2
Shannon’s contribution to, 13.1, 13.2
superposition principle in
quantum physics
of black holes