Download or read book Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information written by Scott J. Muller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers concepts of information across diverse fields –physics, electrical engineering and computational science – surveying current theories, discussing underlying notions of symmetry, and showing how the capacity of a system to distinguish itself relates to information. The author develops a formal methodology using group theory, leading to the application of Burnside's Lemma to count distinguishable states. This provides a tool to quantify complexity and information capacity in any physical system.