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Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the scope of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science, and links have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science.

Since the publication of Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing in 1990, Maxwell's demon has been the subject of renewed and increased interest by numerous researchers in the fields mentioned above. Updated and expanded, Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing retains many of the seminal papers that appeared in the first edition, including the original thoughts of James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; a historical review by Martin Klein; and key articles by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Rolf Landauer, and Charles Bennett that led to new branches of research on the demon. This second edition contains newer articles by Landauer, Bennett, and others, related to Landauer's principle; connections with quantum mechanics; algorithmic information; and the thermodynamics and limits of computation. The book also includes two separate bibliographies: an alphabetical listing by author and a chronological bibliography that is annotated by the editors and contains selected quotes from the books and articles listed. The bibliography has more than doubled in size since publication of the first edition and now contains over 570 entries.

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"MD2 is an excellent presentation of the dominant approach to the Demon in recent years. It is the second, greatly revised, edition of a collection that appeared in 1990 (hereafter MD1) and contributed significantly to the Demon's recent popularity. Let me conclude by highly recommending MD2 as an introduction to mainstream Demonology: its introduction is a very good outline of this approach, the reprinted articles are among the most influential in their fields, and the comprehensive annotated bibliography is a tool without which-since MD1 came out in 1990-work in the field can hardly be imagined."
-Orly R. Shenker, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Volume 35, Issue 3

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 1st edition (December 13, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 502 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0750307595
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0750307598
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.01 x 10 inches

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Maxwell's Demon—several times laid to rest—remains alive, well and more active than ever. It has revealed an ability to teach researchers in a remarkable variety of fields surprising things of fundamental value. The book provides an annotated collection of classic papers in the field. Helpfully indexed, with an exhaustive bibliography and an 88-page annotated chronological bibliography. Some of the material in the first edition (Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing (1990)) has been omitted to accommodate more recent contributions to an exploding field. Indispensable for researchers, but a source of pleasure also for non-specialist browsers.

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