The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes

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.

• By This Professor
• 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