Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Physics

Lecturer, Professor Benjamin Schumacher

The science of information is the most influential, yet perhaps least appreciated field in science today. Never before have we been able to acquire, record, communicate, and use information in so many different forms. This revolution goes far beyond the limitless content that fills our lives, because information also underlies our understanding of ourselves, the natural world, and the universe

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Transformability of Information

Episode 2

Computation and Logic Gates

Episode 3

Measuring Information

Episode 4

Entropy and the Average Surprise

Episode 5

Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes

Episode 6

Encoding Images and Sounds

Episode 7

Noise and Channel Capacity

Episode 8

Error-Correcting Codes

Episode 9

Signals and Bandwidth

Episode 10

Cryptography and Key Entropy

Episode 11

Cryptanalysis and Unraveling the Enigma

Episode 12

Unbreakable Codes and Public Keys

Episode 13

What Genetic Information Can Do

Episode 14

Life's Origins and DNA Computing

Episode 15

Neural Codes in the Brain

Episode 16

Entropy and Microstate Information

Episode 17

Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing

Episode 18

Horse Races and Stock Markets

Episode 19

Turing Machines and Algorithmic Information

Episode 20

Uncomputable Functions and Incompleteness

Episode 21

Qubits and Quantum Information

Episode 22

Quantum Cryptography via Entanglement

Episode 23

It from Bit: Physics from Information

Episode 24

The Meaning of Information