James Gleick - La información: historia y realidad

Quiero expresar mi más profundo agradecimiento a Charles H. Bennett, a Gregory J. Chaitin, a Neil J. A. Sloane, a Susanna Cuyler, a Betty Shannon, a Norma Barzman, a John Simpson, a Peter Gilliver, a Jimmy Wales, a Joseph Strauss, a Craig Townsend, a Janna Levin, a Katherine Bouton, a Dan Menaker, a Esther Schor, a Siobhan Roberts, a Douglas Hofstadter, a Martin Seligman, a Christopher Fuchs, al difunto John Archibald Wheeler, a Carol Hutchin… Betty Alexandra Toole; también a mi agente, Michael Carlisle, y como siempre a mi editor, Dan Frank, por su genialidad y por su inagotable paciencia.

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