Entropy and Information
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Author(s): M. Volkenstein
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 9783034600774
Format: hardback
209pp
Price: £31.99
Review Date: 03 February 2010
Review: The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of complex areas of science, such as cybernetics, information theory and synergetics. Entropy and information are indispensable to all three areas. This book, translated from the Russian, aims to give an account of these new disciplines. It shows how entropy is not just part of a physical concept of energy, but is important in physics, chemistry and biology. The story starts with Sadi Carnot’s ‘memoirs’ on heat engines and goes on to cover: The laws of thermodynamics; Entropy and free energy; Entropy and probability; Statistics and mechanics; Open systems; Information; and Entropy, information and life.