Noise
- ISBN-10
- 1440627150
- ISBN-13
- 9781440627156
- Series
- Noise
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08-17
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Bart Kosko
Description
The science commentator author of the best-selling Fuzzy Thinking presents a scientific history of noise for general readers, defining noise as an unaesthetic signal that occurs at every level of the universe that has made significant contributions in each period from the ice age to the information age. 20,000 first printing.
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