One of a thousand ways TO DEFEAT ENTROPY

Abstract Entropy is as important a concept as energy, but less well known. The two concepts were first distinguished in the middle of the 19th century. By 1900 entro...

The textbook covers all the most important aspects of entropy, one of the fundamental concepts of classical and statistical thermodynamics, as well as all physical chemistry. Vario...

In this chapter a Moorean approach, on which one seeks to defeat, rather than refute, skepticism, is explained, developed, and defended. The issue of whether skepticism was doomed ...

The concept of Shannon entropy is introduced and code is presented to apply it to the logistic map. Entropy tests are discussed and surrogate tests based on the entropy concepts ar...

Richard Nixon’s loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat. His once-promising political career was in ruins as he dropped h...

This chapter discusses how census data for 1850 and 1860 contributed to the military defeat of the South in the Civil War. For instance, the main innovation of the 1860 census was ...

A board of directors that attempts to defeat a hostile takeover attempt will try to raise the cost and lower the value of the shares the raider needs to complete the takeover. This...

From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even its enemies claimed its legacy. The end of empires ushered in an unprecedented glo...