02051cam a2200445 i 4500 17367365 BJBSDDR 20250703173542.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 120629s2012 nyua rb 001 0 eng 2012019142 9781591844723 17367365 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc Q175.32.E85 AR664h 2012 501 23 SCI000000 MAT029000 bisacsh Arbesman, Samuel. 43138 The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman. New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2012. viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index. Contenidos: 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"-- Provided by publisher. Evolution. Science Philosophy. Probabilities. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General. bisacsh 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK LLH 124119 124119 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2025-07-03 0 Q175.32.E85 AR664h 2012 00000193371 2025-07-03 00:00:00 1 2025-07-03 BK