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Professor Benjamin Schumacher, Ph.D.

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Kenyon College
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The University of Texas at Austin
Gravity is about both phenomena near at hand at the human scale, everyday and intuitive, and phenomena far off at an astronomical scale.
Dr. Benjamin Schumacher is Professor of Physics at Kenyon College, where he has taught for 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Professor Schumacher is the author of numerous scientific papers and two books, including Physics in Spacetime: An Introduction to Special Relativity. As one of the founders of quantum information theory, he introduced the term qubit, invented quantum data compression (also known as Schumacher compression), and established several fundamental results about the information capacity of quantum systems. For his contributions, he won the 2002 Quantum Communication Award, the premier international prize in the field, and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Besides working on quantum information theory, he has done physics research on black holes, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Professor Schumacher has spent sabbaticals working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a Moore Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Quantum Information at California Institute of Technology. He has also done research at the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, the Santa Fe Institute, the Perimeter Institute, the University of New Mexico, the University of Montreal, the University of Innsbruck, and the University of Queensland.
"If only I had had lecturers like Schumacher in college, I might have made something of myself. You will be entertained, and your head will spin."
"Professor Schumacher covers an amazing amount of material in a clear and concise way with helpful graphics and demonstrations to reinforce learning."
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(Set) Multivariable Calculus & Quantum Mechanics
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(Set) The Theory of Everything & The Science of Information
Taught By Multiple ProfessorsStarting at $469.90 Starting at $469.90 $539.90 $469.90–$539.90Embark on a stimulating intellectual journey with a two-course set that looks at science in enlightening new ways. Shed light on the unsuspected secrets of the cosmos with The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Then, cover the exciting concepts, history, and applications of information theory in The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes.