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The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date

Title
  1. The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman.
Published by
  1. New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2012.
Author
  1. Arbesman, Samuel.

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Description
  1. viii, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "A new approach to understanding 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"--
Series statement
  1. The human body
Uniform title
  1. Human body (Gareth Stevens Publishing)
Subject
  1. Science > Philosophy
  2. MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
  3. Evolution
  4. Probabilities
  5. SCIENCE / General
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.