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This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does

This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical ent

Discover the mathematical riches of 'what is diversity?' in a book that adds mathematical rigour to a vital ecological debate.

The concept of entropy arose in the physical sciences during the nineteenth century, particularly in thermodynamics and statistical physics, as a measure of the

Forty years ago, in 1957, the Principle of Maximum Entropy was first intro duced by Jaynes into the field of statistical mechanics. Since that seminal publicati