Entropy and uncertainty (Q845371)
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Entropy and uncertainty (English)
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29 January 2010
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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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entropy
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relative entropy
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uncertainty
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information theory
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