The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy -- two of the most frequently discussed

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This book provides a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concepts in thermodynamics — probability, entropy, Helmholtz energy and Gibbs energy.

This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does

This book is about the definition of the Shannon measure of Information, and some derived quantities such as conditional information and mutual information. Unl