Friday, October 20, 2017

Entropy

Any method involving the notion of entropy, the very existence of which depends on the second law of thermodynamics, will doubtless seem to many far-fetched, and may repel beginners as obscure and difficult of comprehension.

Willard GibbsGraphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids
Энтропия — это количество информации, приходящейся на одно элементарное сообщение источника, вырабатывающего статистически независимые сообщения.