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	Harvard University Press: Information : The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer
		In this indispensable volume, a primer for the information age, Hans Christian von Baeyer presents a clear description of what information is, how concepts of its measurement, meaning, and transmission evolved, and what its ever-expanding presence portends for the future.
		Information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe, von Baeyer suggests; it will provide a new basic framework for describing and predicting reality in the twenty-first century.
		Hans Christian von Baeyer is Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/VONINF.html (326 words)

	Information overload \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		In a marvellous passage, Von Baeyer explains why clear communication depends on the presence of some noise because, without it, our senses would be overloaded by measuring or observing a single physical quantity.
		Von Baeyer points this out during a fascinating analysis of how information appears to be irretrievably lost in these holes after they have swallowed passing matter, contrary to the laws of quantum theory.
		Von Baeyer is incapable of penning an ugly sentence.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/scienceandnature/0,6121,1085257,00.html (689 words)

	Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Artikel Druckversion
		Von Walter Ritter von Baeyer (1904—1987) gingen wesentliche Impulse für die Entwicklung der deutschen Psychiatrie nach 1945 aus.
		Walter Ritter von Baeyer, sein Amt antrat und zum Direktor der Psychiatrischen und Neurologischen Universitätsklinik Heidelberg ernannt wurde.
		Es wäre für von Baeyer eine ganz besondere Genugtuung gewesen, wenn er in den 90er-Jahren noch hätte miterleben können, dass Christoph Mundt, sein Nach-Nachfolger auf seinem Lehrstuhl, vor dem Eingang seiner Klinik einen Gedenkstein enthüllte, um die in der Nazizeit ermordeten Kranken zu ehren.
	www.aerzteblatt.de /v4/archiv/artikeldruck.asp?id=44157 (861 words)

	PHF -Hans von Baeyer
		Hans Christian von Baeyer began his talk with the rather engaging and provocative comment that "There is no such thing as time.
		From this beginning, however, von Baeyer delved into the way that physics perceives time, and in particular looks at the way that thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum gravity all indicate that time is an arrow that cannot be turned back.
		As von Baeyer countered, however, relativity did allow for a certain kind of time machine - one in which a rapidly moving subject experienced the passage of time at a slower rate than other subjects at relative rest.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /01-02/vonbaeyersynopsis.htm (338 words)

	Research at William and Mary \| Research
		In Information, physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer sets out to explain why...information is the irreducible seed from which every particle, every force and even the fabric of space-time grows.
		Von Baeyer has provided an accessible and engaging overview of the emerging role of information as a fundamental building block in science.
		Hans Christian von Bayer is well known for explaining the complexities of science to the rest of us, and in this book he lives up to his reputation by taking on one of the most difficult concepts around--information.
	www.wm.edu /research/?fetchid=3758 (539 words)

	Natural History Magazine \| Natural Selections
		Von Baeyer makes a valiant effort to fill in those blanks, focusing in his final chapter on the interesting ideas and experiments of Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna.
		Von Baeyer is a physicist, but he is also an able and accomplished expositor, author of four earlier books and many magazine essays.
		Von Baeyer sets out to show that binary notation is “the least expensive way to handle information,” where the “expense” he wants to minimize is defined as the number of digits in the numerical representation of a message multiplied by the number of symbols possible for each digit.
	www.naturalhistorymag.com /1004/1004_selections.html (5212 words)

	Book Review
		Von Baeyer provides an outline of how information theory underlies a number of scientific fields, including that most fundamental idea of classical physics, entropy.
		In a sense, all the material that has been discussed up to this point is really a preliminary to what von Baeyer sees as the real importance of the information concept, which is its relevance to the quantum world.
		Von Baeyer pens a near-poetic description of this elusive object, which he pictures as "a soft, translucent sphere, a peeled seedless grape shimmering indistinctly in all the colours of the rainbow at once...
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/baeyer.html (763 words)

	Hans von Baeyer named Virginia’s 2005 Beverly Orndorff Award recipient \| University Relations
		This is why von Baeyer has been named recipient of Virginia’s 2005 Beverly Orndorff Award for Exceptional Service to Public Understanding of Science by Governor Mark R. Warner and Science Museum of Virginia Director Dr. Walter R.T. Witschey.
		Von Baeyer and other recipients of this year’s Scientist and Industrialist Awards are being presented to the Virginia General Assembly on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
		Von Baeyer has a doctorate from Vanderbilt, a master’s degree from the University of Miami and a bachelor’s from Columbia University.
	www.wm.edu /news/index.php?id=4275 (557 words)

	Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes - From Monitor-Data.com Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Von Baeyer treats us to a wide-ranging survey of the early days of thermodynamics, the demon's multiple deaths and rebirths, and an explanation of why entropy's not such a bad thing after all.
		Von Baeyer has a terrific knack for knowing what's interesting about his topic and sharing that interest through examples, quotations, and personal stories.
		While von Baeyer's discussion of Clerk Maxwell and his "demon" is quite interesting and, for the most part, informative, he ignores the dramatic appearance of the demon in modern literature.
	www.monitor-data.com /books/0679433422.html (954 words)

	Kenneth Snelson
		HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER is Professor of Physics at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
		To prepare himself~for their conversation, however, he further familiarized himself~ with Snelson's work at the Galerie Zabriskie in Paris (where he was on sabbatical during the 1986-87 academic year) and read Snelson's unpublished manuscript, which is the most thorough nonvisual articulation of his ideas on the atom.
		Von Baeyer's humanistic sensibilities are as well honed for a scientist as are Snelson's scientific sensibilities for an artist.
	www.kennethsnelson.net /articles/von_beyer_conversation.htm (7153 words)

	Amazon.com: Information: The New Language of Science: Books: Hans Christian von Baeyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW SCIENTIST (November issue) : 'In INFORMATION, physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer sets out to explain why this is regarded as one of the most fundamental and philosophical questions in science: information is the irreducible seed from which every particle, every force and even the fabric of space-time grows.
		In this exciting, enlightening and extraordinary book, Hans Christian von Baeyer addresses these and many other questions, revealing how the concept of information can cast light on principles as diverse as thermodynamics in physics and heredity in biology.
		With a narrative marked out by its clarity and sheer readability, von Baeyer takes us from the roots of the theory through to the coal-face of modern physics and beyond, deftly unpicking the many strands that knit information so tightly into the fabric of the universe.
	www.amazon.com /Information-Hans-Christian-von-Baeyer/dp/product-description/0297607251 (853 words)

	Information : The New Language of Science
		The goal of von Baeyer's book is to ask, over and over again, "what is information?" In this regard, the book attempts to give nontechnical insight into Shannon's ideas.
		Since I was familiar with and greatly admired von Baeyer's book on Maxwell's Demon, ``Warmth Disperses and Time Passes'', I immediately pre-ordered a copy of ``Information--The New Language of Science''.
		Von Baeyer is an excellent expositor, and has written several books on science for the lay person.
	www.teen-bookstore.com /item/Information--The-New-Language-of-Science-0674013875.html (1207 words)

	Jim Anderson's Favorite Books
		Baeyer addresses the question posed, by among other people, John Archibald Wheeler, how IT is related to BIT or "how is our understanding of the world (its meaning) related to its objective reality." An essay in the philosopy of science.
		Baeyer traces the course of the history of thermodynamics - well-written.
		Although entitled as a postscript to the Philisophical Fragments, it is actually a much longer and very densely argued book, comparable in some ways with the most difficult texts in the history of philosophy (such as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason).
	www.sandhills.cc.nc.us /ja3.html (4112 words)

	Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer
		Von Baeyer stopped focusing on the title and, instead, began discussing things like how information is transmitted and the history of science as it relates to information, both directly and very indirectly.
		And although much of the book is very accessible, I wouldn't consider this a work of popular science like some of the reviewers make it out to be.
		Hans doesn't seem to and his tend to better to boot.
	www.2think.org /information.shtml (461 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Taming the Atom:: the Emergence of the Visible Microworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not many physicists these days have Baeyer's assured curiosity, which allows him to borrow a title from Saint-Exupery ("One only understands the things that one tames") for his discussion of the wraiths and phantoms of nearly 50 years of quantum theory.
		Baeyer has the Little Prince's determined faith that the next generation will see the atomic world, and perhaps will at last unify atomic theory and quantum mechanics, the physics of Einstein and Bohr.
		At the beginning of this volume, von Baeyer (Rainbows, Snowflakes and Quarks, LJ 7/84) tells of his recent visit to a physics laboratory to actually see an individual mercury atom, captured, isolated, and made visible by very new techniques of microphysics.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679765344 (640 words)

	Hans Christian Von Baeyer: Warmth Disperses and Time Passes : The History of Heat (Modern Library Paperbacks) - Køb ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hans von Baeyer is almost as much historian as scientist.
		This blend of science and history, combined with von Baeyer's journalistic approach, creates a book that is both exceedingly accessible and surprisingly illuminating.
		Von Baeyer's approach is to advance his topic short chapter by short chapter.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0375753729\|books\| (1073 words)

	PHF -Hans von Baeyer
		In fact, modern physics demonstrates that it is an elastic, turbulent, and possibly even grainy sort of stuff -- though ultimately its true nature remains as enigmatic as ever.
		von Baeyer will review the contributions of five branches of physics to our understanding of the meaning of time: the science of heat, the special and general theories of relativity, quantum theory, and the latest synthesis called quantum gravity.
		His great-great grandfather, Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794-1885), was a famous German geodisist whose son, Adolf von Baeyer, won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1905.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /01-02/vonbaeyer.htm (436 words)

	Powell's Books - Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat (Modern Library) by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
		In Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it.
		With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling coffee cup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.
		Hans Christian von Baeyer is Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he lives with his wife and their two daughters.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375753729 (842 words)

	PHF -Hans von Baeyer
		von Baeyer will review the contributions of five branches of physics to our understanding of the meaning of time: the science of heat, the special and general theories of relativity, quantum theory, and the latest synthesis called quantum gravity.
		In the end the perplexities of time appear to be much closer to the realities of our daily lives than is commonly appreciated.
		His great-great grandfather, Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794-1885), was a famous German geodisist whose son, Adolf von Baeyer, won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1905.
	www.humanities.sas.upenn.edu /01-02/vonbaeyer.htm (436 words)

	Information: The New Language of Science: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Von Baeyer manages to steer clear of equations without resorting to the hand-waving metaphors that too many science popularizers lapse into when trying to convey difficult ideas.
		New Scientist : In Information, physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer sets out to explain why...information is the irreducible seed from which every particle, every force and even the fabric of space-time grows.
		Nature : Von Baeyer has provided an accessible and engaging overview of the emerging role of information as a fundamental building block in science.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0674013875 (819 words)

	The Mathematical Theory of Information: Reviews and Comments
		Hans Christian von Baeyer, Chancellor Professor of Physics, College of William and Mary in Virginia, author of Warmth Disperses and Time Passes - A History of Heat.
		This remarkable book is sure to stretch the horizon and inspire the imagination of every physicist, computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and philosopher interested in the theory and practice of information science.
		--- Hans Christian von Baeyer, Chancellor Professor of Physics, College of William and Mary in Virginia, author of Warmth Disperses and Time Passes - A History of Heat.
	www.matheory.info /reviews.html (1966 words)

	William & Mary : College Scholars Program Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hans Christian von Baeyer, Chancellor Professor of Physics, was born in 1938 in Berlin, Germany.
		von Baeyer is the only WandM faculty member to have won both the Jefferson Award and the Jefferson Teaching Award, and in 1990 was selected as one of the outstanding faculty members of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
		von Baeyer's books have been issued in paperback and translated into many languages.
	collegescholars.wm.edu /faculty_profiles.html (441 words)

	Let's talk about information (February 2004) - Review - PhysicsWeb
		This new book by Hans Christian von Baeyer - a physicist at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, US - provides a superb account of various aspects of the influence of information on humanity and science in particular.
		Written by an author who displays a thorough understanding of his subject, the book offers the bold thesis that information is the essence of science.
		These issues will soon become pressing for our civilization, although I admit that they are beyond what one might expect a fellow physicist, such as von Baeyer, to address.
	physicsweb.org /articles/review/17/2/1/1 (884 words)

	Book Review: Information (Hans Christian von Baeyer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But von Baeyer insists that this is the wrong way to
		In the meantime, von Baeyer sees a pointer to how things may develop in the
		does not lie in von Baeyer's writing, which is commendably clear.
	www.groupsrv.com /hobby/about757.html (803 words)

	Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Von Baeyer stopped focusing on the title and, instead, began discussing things like how information is transmitted and the history of science as it relates to information, both directly and very indirectly.
		And although much of the book is very accessible, I wouldn't consider this a work of popular science like some of the reviewers make it out to be.
		Hans doesn't seem to and his tend to better to boot.
	en.web-blaster.org /www.2think.org/information.shtml (461 words)

	bookideas.com: Maxwell's Demon by Hans Christian von Baeyer
		Search Amazon for other books by or about Hans Christian von Baeyer.
		A few months ago, I was reading a book called Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian von Baeyer.
		Von Baeyer used the image of the demon pretty liberally as a unifying theme for the book.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=251 (492 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97041543 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it, most notably James Clerk Maxwell, whose demonic invention has bedeviled generations of physics students with its light-fingered attempts to flout the laws of thermodynamics.
		Explaining why the Demon can't have his day has been an intellectual gauntlet taken up by a century and a half of the world's most brilliant scientists, whose discoveries Professor von Baeyer vividly etches.
		With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling teacup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0412/97041543.html (402 words)

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