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100 1  $a Arbesman, Samuel, $e author.
245 14 $a The half life of facts : $b why everything we know has an expiration date / $c Samuel Arbesman.
264  1 $a New York : $b Current, $c 2013.
300    $a 1 volume ; $c 21 cm
500    $a Formerly CIP. $5 Uk
520    $a "Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution can have a powerful impact on our lives. Arbesman takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries. He offers intriguing examples about the face of knowledge: what English majors can learn from a statistical analysis of The Canterbury Tales, why it's so hard to measure a mountain, and why, for years, everyone was taught the wrong number of human chromosomes. The Half-Life of Facts can help us find new ways to measure the world while accepting the limits of how much we can know with certainty."--Back cover.
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650  0 $a Science $x Philosophy.
650  0 $a Probabilities.
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