Lionel Barnett – författare

Lies, money-laundering and murder, set in Tropical South Florida during Hurricane Season, is the backdrop for this creative novel. Two brothers, David Stafford, tall, good looking, charming, expelled university student, prepared to exploit all who would contribute toward his progress in the pursuit of wealth and power. Mark his brother, a member of a powerful syndicate bent on aiding his brothers ambitions. A beautiful twenty six year old secretary is brutally murdered. Brian Mills, a private investigator sets about investigating her murder. He finds himself involved in, not only murder, but in addition, money laundering and Union intrigue. The novel has an interesting twist, promising that once you start reading this story, you will not want to put it down.

This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key feature of the approach is the authors' work to show the relationship between information flow and complexity. The later chapters demonstrate information transfer in canonical systems, and applications, for example in neuroscience and in finance.The book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the areas of computer science, neuroscience, physics, and engineering.