Chen-Pang Yeang

Transforming Noise

A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955

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Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern times. The book sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 168mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780198887768
• ISBN-10: 0198887760
• Artikelnr.: 68271358

Autorenporträt

Professor Chen-Pang Yeang is a historian of science and technology. His areas of research and teaching include physics, electrical engineering, computing, sound technology, information science and technology, and linguistics in the 20th and 21st centuries in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. He is working on three research projects: the discovery of electric waves and their establishment as a scientific effect in 1887-1900, grassroots innovations of digital technologies in China, Taiwan, and the US; and the soundscape of Republican China.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Discordance and nuisance
3.: Materializing cacophony: surface noise on phonographic records
4.: Measuring noise: from ear-balance to self-registration
5.: Brownian motion and the origin of stochastic processes
6.: Electronic noise in telecommunications
7.: Dynamics of Brownian motion
8.: Spectrum of random noise
9.: A mathematical foundation of fluctuations
10.: Noise in radar detection
11.: Filtering noise for antiaircraft gunfire control
12.: Information, cryptography, and noise
13.: Spread-spectrum communication
14.: Conclusion