Cover of Half-Life of Facts

Book 2014

Half-Life of Facts

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Published
2014
  • Evolution
  • Science, philosophy
  • Probabilities

"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"--