She is a tragic figure , because she died an early and painful death and because she was a person living in the wrong time : a truly brilliant mathematician whose talents could not have been recognized until a century later . James Gleick wrote a new book `` The Information '' about history of information . Says scientific definition of information is a mathematical quantity , measured in bits . `` Chaos '' author also says that for humans , information is how we know something . He writes : " We are not the only ones who have to learn this lesson ; it has been learned by all living things and even inanimate objects like rocks or trees can be classified as information if they
James Gleick wrote a new book `` The Information '' about history of information . Says scientific definition of information is a mathematical quantity , measured in bits . `` Chaos '' author also says that for humans , information is how we know something . He writes : " We are not the only ones who have to learn this lesson ; it has been learned by all living things and even inanimate objects like rocks or trees can be classified as information if they