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Yeang, Chen-Pang - Transforming Noise

Catalogue No: 9780198887768
A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955

Product FormatBook
AuthorYeang, Chen-Pang
£55.00
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Pages496
Publication Date30 October 2023
ISBN9780198887768 (0198887761)
EAN9780198887768

    Examines the historical relations between sonic noise and informational noise
  • A comprehensive and detailed analysis of noise and its conceptual transformation to an informational concept
  • Offers interdisciplinarity and conveys the interconnectedness of episodes in history of science and technology
  • Integrates the history of sensory perceptions with the development of modern technosciences
  • Historicizes a central issue underlying data science, artificial intelligence, and the computational form of life

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern times. The book sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century.

Contents

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Discordance and nuisance
  3. 3. Materializing cacophony: surface noise on phonographic records
  4. 4. Measuring noise: from ear-balance to self-registration
  5. 5. Brownian motion and the origin of stochastic processes
  6. 6. Electronic noise in telecommunications
  7. 7. Dynamics of Brownian motion
  8. 8. Spectrum of random noise
  9. 9. A mathematical foundation of fluctuations
  10. 10. Noise in radar detection
  11. 11. Filtering noise for antiaircraft gunfire control
  12. 12. Information, cryptography, and noise
  13. 13. Spread-spectrum communication
  14. 14. Conclusion
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