The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date /
Arbesman, Samuel.
The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman. - New York : Current, 2012. - viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-234) and index.
The half-life of facts -- The pace of discovery -- The asymptote of truth -- Moore's law of everything -- The spread of facts -- Hidden knowledge -- Fact phase transitions -- Mount Everest and the discovery of error -- The human side of facts -- At the edge of what we know.
"A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"--
159184472X : HRD $25.95 9781591844723
Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 282-5074
2012019142
Evolution.
Science--Philosophy.
Probabilities.
SCIENCE / General.
MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.
Q175.32.E85 / A74 2012
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The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman. - New York : Current, 2012. - viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-234) and index.
The half-life of facts -- The pace of discovery -- The asymptote of truth -- Moore's law of everything -- The spread of facts -- Hidden knowledge -- Fact phase transitions -- Mount Everest and the discovery of error -- The human side of facts -- At the edge of what we know.
"A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"--
159184472X : HRD $25.95 9781591844723
Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 282-5074
2012019142
Evolution.
Science--Philosophy.
Probabilities.
SCIENCE / General.
MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.
Q175.32.E85 / A74 2012
501