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English Expositour, An
(Bullokar)

English language

earliest dictionaries,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
3.10
,
3.11

evolution of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

growth of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

number of speakers of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Oxford English Dictionary
of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
3.10
,
3.11

phonemes of,
1.1
,
1.2

redundancy in,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

spelling of words in,
3.1
,
3.2

statistical analysis,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

use of tonality in

vocabulary size

English Schoolemaister, The
(Coote)

ENIAC

Enigma code,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

entanglement,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5

entelechy

entropy,
prl.1
,
8.1

concept of mind and

definition of,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

as disorder

dissipation of energy in,
9.1
,
9.2

information as,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

information to reduce,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7

of language

mathematical complexity and

Maxwell’s demon,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
9.9
,
10.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
15.1
,
epl.1

measurement of

as measure of uncertainty,
9.1
,
9.2

movement of universe toward,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

orderliness of biological life and,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

randomness and

in thermodynamics of computation

Entscheidungsproblem,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

enzymes,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2

Ephrussi, Boris

Epimenides’ paradox

epistemology

erasure of information,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
14.1

error correction

applications of Shannon’s theories

in artillery targeting

in early telegraphic code systems,
5.1
,
5.2

in genetic code

to overcome noise,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

redundancy for,
7.1
,
7.2

in talking drum language

in telegraphy

errors, in logarithmic tables,
4.1
,
4.2

Erya,
3.1

evolution

as computational process

emergence of global consciousness as

gene interactions and,
10.1
,
10.2

of genes,
10.1
,
10.2

of ideas

information processing in

role of altruistic behavior in,
10.1
,
10.2

evolutionary biology,
10.1
,
11.1

Ex-Prodigy
(Wiener)

Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series
(Wiener, Bigelow)

factoring algorithm,
13.1
,
13.2

Fano, Robert,
7.1
,
7.2
,
12.1

Faraday, Michael,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

feedback,
5.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1

Feynman, Richard,
9.1
,
10.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

file storage technology

fire beacons

fire-control;
see
antiaircraft guns and artillery

FitzRoy, Robert,
5.1
,
5.2

Ford, Joseph,
12.1
,
12.2

Formal Logic
(De Morgan)

Foundations of the Theory of Probability
(Kolmogorov)

Four Great Books of Song,
epl.1

France,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8

Frank, Lawrence K.,
8.1
,
8.2

Franklin, Benjamin

Freeman, Thomas,
15.1
,
15.2

Freud, Sigmund,
8.1
,
9.1

Frost, Robert

Fry, Thornton C.,
6.1
,
6.2

Fuchs, Christopher,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Fuchs, Ulrich

Gabor, Dennis

Galileo,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1

galvanometer,
5.1
,
5.2

games,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6

game theory

Gamow, George,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

General Electric

genetics

altruistic behavior and,
10.1
,
10.2

aperiodic crystal model of,
9.1
,
10.1

coding system,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7
,
10.8
,
10.9
,
10.10

development of scientific concepts of,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5

discovery of DNA,
10.1
,
10.2

gene structure and function,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7
,
10.8
,
10.9
,
10.10
,
10.11
,
10.12
,
10.13
,
10.14

genome mapping

as information science,
prl.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7

information storage in,
7.1
,
7.2

memetics and

Schrödinger’s formulation of,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

selfish gene concept,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
11.1

symbolic logic to describe,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Gerard, Ralph,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

Gibbs, Willard

Gibson, William

Gilgamesh

Gilliver, Peter,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Glossographia: or a Dictionary
(Blount),
3.1
,
3.2

Gödel, Kurt,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
epl.1

Gödel’s Proof
(Nagel, Newman)

Godfather
(film)

“Gold Bug, The” (Poe)

Gongsun Long

Google,
11.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Gould, Glenn,
12.1
,
12.2

Gould, Stephen Jay

gravity,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1

Gray, Elisha

Great Exhibition of 1851 (London)

Great Soviet Encyclopedia,
12.1

Greece,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6

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