Entropy and Information

• Main Author: Volkenstein, Mikhail V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 57
• Subjects: Physics.; Coding theory.; Bioinformatics.; Quantum theory.; Physics, general.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Coding and Information Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0078-1

The book "Entropy and Information" deals with the thermodynamical concept of entropy and its relationship to information theory. It is successful in explaining the universality of the term "Entropy" not only as a physical phenomenon, but reveals its existence also in other domain...

Table of Contents:

• 1. "Reflections on the motive power of fire ..."
• 2. The laws of thermodynamics
• 3. Entropy and free energy
• 4. Entropy and probability
• 5. Statistics and mechanics
• 6. Open systems
• 7. Information
• 8. Entropy, information, life.