TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arbesman,Samuel
TI  - The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date 
SN  - 159184472X : HRD
AV  - Q175.32.E85 A74 2012
U1  - 501 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Current
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -