This eighteenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series provides a thorough description of Information Theory and some of its most active areas, in particular, its relation to thermodynamics at the nanoscale and the Maxwell Demon, and the emergence of quantum computation and of its counterpart, quantum verification. It also includes two introductory tutorials, one on the fundamental relation between thermodynamics and information theory, and a primer on Shannon's entropy and information theory. The book offers a unique and manifold perspective on recent mathematical and physical developments in this field.

Bertrand Duplantier and Vincent Rivasseau are Theoretical Physicists who have been 45 years active at CNRS, CEA and Orsay University, now partners of Paris-Saclay University. Together they have founded the Poincaré Seminar in 2001, and published its proceedings in 18 books with Birkhaeuser-Science.

Hersteller:
Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media
juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Heidelberger Platz 3
DE 14197 Berlin