Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications
by
Phil Broadbridge 1,* and
Anthony J. Guttmann 2
Phil Broadbridge 1,* and
Anthony J. Guttmann 2
1
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, c/o University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
2
ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, c/o University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
*
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Entropy 2009, 11(1), 59-61; https://doi.org/10.3390/e11010059
Received: 8 February 2009 / Accepted: 9 February 2009 / Published: 12 February 2009
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007)
Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page.
Since a connection was made in the 19th Century between increase of entropy and earlier expressions of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the topic has continued to fascinate engineers, physicists, chemists, computer scientists, mathematicians and philosophers. The topic of entropy is very much alive, as witnessed by the highly cited proceedings of a lively conference on the subject, held in Dresden Germany in 2000 [1]. Our intention in running a theme program seven years after the Dresden conference was to stimulate connections between entropy theory and broader applications. The papers in this special issue arose from a meeting of the AMSI-MASCOS Theme Program, Concepts of Entropy and their Applications, which took place in Melbourne Australia, November 26- December 12, 2007. [...]
Keywords:
Entropy; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; information theory; environmental data; irreversibility
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Broadbridge, P.; Guttmann, A.J. Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications. Entropy 2009, 11, 59-61.
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