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The half-life of facts by Samuel Arbesman · Booklabria

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The half-life of facts

Name: The half-life of facts
Author: Samuel Arbesman

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First published: 2012
Language: English
Editions: 2

Synopsis

"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"--

Subjects: Philosophy
Science
Evolution
Probabilities
Science, philosophy
Probability & Statistics

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