Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life
Author
Jeremy Campbell
Subject
Information theory, Systems theory, Cybernetics, Linguistics
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1982
Pages
319
ISBN
0671440616
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by Jeremy Campbell, then Washington correspondent for the Evening Standard.[1] The book examines the topics of probability, information theory, cybernetics, genetics, and linguistics.
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