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The Science of Information From Language to Black Holes
2015
Director
Benjamin Schumacher
Supplier
The Great Courses
In This Series

Episode 1
The Transformability of Information

Episode 2
Computation and Logic Gates

Episode 3
Measuring Information

Episode 4
Entropy and the Average Surprise

Episode 5
Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes

Episode 6
Encoding Images and Sounds

Episode 7
Noise and Channel Capacity

Episode 8
Error-Correcting Codes

Episode 9
Signals and Bandwidth

Episode 10
Cryptography and Key Entropy

Episode 11
Cryptanalysis and Unraveling the Enigma

Episode 12
Unbreakable Codes and Public Keys

Episode 13
What Genetic Information Can Do

Episode 14
Life’s Origins and DNA Computing

Episode 15
Neural Codes in the Brain

Episode 16
Entropy and Microstate Information

Episode 17
Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing

Episode 18
Horse Races and Stock Markets

Episode 19
Turing Machines and Algorithmic Information

Episode 20
Uncomputable Functions and Incompleteness

Episode 21
Qubits and Quantum Information

Episode 22
Quantum Cryptography via Entanglement

Episode 23
It from Bit: Physics from Information

Episode 24
The Meaning of Information