Maxwell's Demon 2 Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing

This second edition brings under one cover thirty-two reprints - more than half of which are new. Included are seminal works by James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein and Edward Daub; pivotal contributions by Leo Szilard and Leon Brillouin; linkages with the limits of computation by Rolf Landauer, Charles Bennett and Seth Lloyd; views of the demon using algorithmic information theory by Carleton Caves and Wojciech Zurek; examination of a quantum mechanical Maxwell's demon by Seth Lloyd. There are over 200 additions to the alphabetical and chronological bibliographies. A revised overview outlines the flurry of scholarly activity about Maxwell's demon since publication of the first edition. Evidently Maxwell's demon has become part of the fabric of science and the culture of entropy.

Harvey S Leff is Professor Emeritus of Physics at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California Andrew F Rex is Professor of Physics at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington