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The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2012Description: viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781591844723
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 23
LOC classification:
  • Q175.32.E85 AR664h 2012
Other classification:
  • SCI000000 | MAT029000
Contents:
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
Summary: "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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) Q175.32.E85 AR664h 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000193371

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.

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