给出信息的定义后，书中进一步说明了信息论在生物学、物理学、经济学、社会学和哲学的应用。
Once he has defined information, Mr Vedral proceeds to show how information theory can be applied to biology, physics, economics, sociology and philosophy.
博弈论作为在应用数学中具有重要应用价值的一个分支，在信息科学、进化生物学、社会科学等诸多学科中有着广泛的应用。
Game theory is a very useful and important branch of mathematics, as it can solve many problems in economics, social science and biology.
这一方面是因为生物学中的进化论和遗传学知识在当时的社会中得到了广泛的传播，生物学又涉及非常广泛的人生问题；
The reason was that the theory of evolution and the knowledge of genetics had been communicated in Chinese society at that time, and the knowledge of biology was related with extensive fields of life.
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