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The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Information Theory Courses Physics Courses Cryptography Courses Error-Correcting Codes Courses Entropy Courses Quantum Information Courses Quantum Cryptography Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore the exciting concepts, history, and applications of information theory in 24 challenging and eye-opening half-hour lectures taught by a world-renowned physicist.

Syllabus

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  • 01: The Transformability of Information
  • 02: Computation and Logic Gates
  • 03: Measuring Information
  • 04: Entropy and the Average Surprise
  • 05: Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes
  • 06: Encoding Images and Sounds
  • 07: Noise and Channel Capacity
  • 08: Error-Correcting Codes
  • 09: Signals and Bandwidth
  • 10: Cryptography and Key Entropy
  • 11: Cryptanalysis and Unraveling the Enigma
  • 12: Unbreakable Codes and Public Keys
  • 13: What Genetic Information Can Do
  • 14: Life's Origins and DNA Computing
  • 15: Neural Codes in the Brain
  • 16: Entropy and Microstate Information
  • 17: Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing
  • 18: Horse Races and Stock Markets
  • 19: Turing Machines and Algorithmic Information
  • 20: Uncomputable Functions and Incompleteness
  • 21: Qubits and Quantum Information
  • 22: Quantum Cryptography via Entanglement
  • 23: It from Bit: Physics from Information
  • 24: The Meaning of Information

Taught by

Benjamin Schumacher

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