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...

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...

Black holes, once considered to be of purely theoretical interest, play an important role in observational astronomy and a range of astrophysical phenomena. This volume is based on...