01784cam a2200385 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009702000180011403500130013204000280014504100080017304200080018105000290018908200120021808400340023010000220026424500960028626400500038230000460043233600210047833700250049933800230052450400670054750502740061452003560088865000150124465000250125965000190128465000320130365000630133517367365BJBSDDR20250703173542.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta120629s2012    nyua    rb    001 0 eng    a  2012019142  a9781591844723  a17367365  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc00aQ175.32.E85bAR664h 201200a501223  aSCI000000aMAT0290002bisacsh1 aArbesman, Samuel.14aThe half-life of facts :bwhy everything we know has an expiration date /cSamuel Arbesman. 1aNew York, New York, U.S.A. :bCurrent,c2012.  aviii, 242 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.  aContenidos: 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"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aEvolution. 0aSciencexPhilosophy. 0aProbabilities. 7aSCIENCE / General.2bisacsh 7aMATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.2bisacsh