Information: The new language of science by Hans Christian von Baeyer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99, ISBN 0297607251
WE may be living in the information age, but physicists remain haunted by a disturbing puzzle: what is information? Sure, we know lots about sending, measuring and receiving the stuff. But what really lies behind those 1s and 0s, the basic chunks of information?
This is deep stuff, but von Baeyer romps through a huge range of subjects, including thermodynamics, statistics, information theory and quantum mechanics with ease. Although he cannot answer the ultimate question, you will never think of information the same way again. ...
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