Entropy and uncertainty

DOI10.3390/E10040493MaRDI QIDQ845371zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Derek W. Robinson

Publication date 29 January 2010

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/e10040493

zbMATH Keywords

entropyinformation theoryrelative entropyuncertainty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Review text

Summary: We give a survey of the basic statistical ideas underlying the definition of entropy in information theory and their connections with the entropy in the theory of dynamical systems and in statistical mechanics.

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