| Description |
1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- I ABSTRACTION AND MATERIALIZATION OF NOISE -- 2 Discordance and Nuisance -- 3 Materializing Cacophony: Surface Noise on Phonographic Records -- 4 Measuring Noise: From Ear-Balance to Self-Registration -- II BROWNIAN MOTION AND ELECTRONIC NOISE -- 5 Brownian Motion and the Origin of Stochastic Processes -- 6 Electronic Noise in Telecommunications -- III BUILDING A THEORETICAL REGIME -- 7 Dynamics of Brownian Motion -- 8 Spectrum of Random Noise -- 9 A Mathematical Foundation of Fluctuations |
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IV NOISE, SIGNAL, INFORMATION, AND WAR -- 10 Noise in Radar Detection -- 11 Filtering Noise for Antiaircraft Gunfire Control -- 12 Information, Cryptography, and Noise -- 13 Spread-Spectrum Communication -- 14 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198887775 |
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0198887779 |
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