TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arbesman,Samuel
TI  - The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date 
SN  - 9781591844723
AV  - Q175.32.E85 AR664h 2012
U1  - 501 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, New York, U.S.A.
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; 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
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  -