Grammatical man

by Jeremy Campbell

Blurb

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by the Evening Standard's Washington correspondent, Jeremy Campbell. The book touches on topics of probability, Information Theory, cybernetics, genetics and linguistics. The book frames and examines existence, from the Big Bang to DNA to human communication to artificial ntelligence, in terms of information processes. The text consists of a foreword, twenty-one chapters, and an afterword. It is divided into four parts: Establishing the Theory of Information; Nature as an Information Process; Coding Language, Coding Life; How the Brain Puts It All Together.

First Published

1982

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