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- For more than 20 years only available in Russian and now for the first time published in English
- Volkenstein presents highly complex issues in an enjoyable readable style
- Covers a topic that is still of interest and researched today: How entropy as a physical concept can be found also in other domains, e.g. biology, information theory, and even arts
- Timely introduction to entropy from a thermodynamic perspective
- With a biographical foreword by Werner Ebeling
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 57)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“The book is structured in eight chapters covering topics raging of the early history of thermodynamics to the complexity and value of information. … is recommended to advanced high-school students, beginning university students and others who do not know many concepts of physics. Being a book for non-experts, the author literary describes all the notions using very simple mathematical equations … . also, contains schemes and images for a better understanding of the reader. … explains in details all the presented formulas and phenomenas.” (Nicolae Constantinescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1186, 2010)About the author
Mikhail Vladimirowitsch Volkenstein (1912-1992), russian bio-physicist, was director of the Institute of Molecur Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Research interests: Quantum Biophysics, Biopolymers, quantum-mechanical models of encyme catalysis, Fermi-resonance within Peptid-compounds. Volkenstein was born 1912 and died in 1992.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entropy and Information
Authors: Mikhail V. Volkenstein
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0078-1
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0346-0077-4Published: 14 August 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0346-0078-1Published: 27 October 2009
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 210
Topics: Physics, general, Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Coding and Information Theory, Bioinformatics