Entropy /
edited by Andreas Greven, Gerhard Keller, Gerald Warnecke
- New Delhi : New Age International, c2010.
- xiv, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-350) and index.
Introduction / Fundamental Concepts -- Entropy: a Subtle Concept in Thermodynamics / Probabilistic Aspects of Entropy / Entropy in Thermodynamics -- Phenomenological Thermodynamics and Entropy Principles / Entropy in Nonequilibrium / Entropy for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws / Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics / The Entropy of Classical Thermodynamics / Entropy in Stochastic Processes -- Large Deviations and Entropy / Relative Entropy for Random Motion in a Random Medium / Metastability and Entropy / Entropy Production in Driven Spatially Extended Systems / Entropy: a Dialogue / Entropy and Information -- Classical and Quantum Entropies: Dynamics and Information / Complexity and Information in Data / Entropy in Dynamical Systems / Entropy in Ergodic Theory / A. Greven, G. Keller and G. Warnecke -- I. Muller -- H.-O. Georgii -- K. Hutter and Y. Wang -- I. Muller -- C. M. Dafermos -- J. Uffink -- E. H. Lieb and J. Yngvason -- S. R. S. Varadhan -- F. den Hollander -- E. Olivieri -- C. Maes -- J. L. Lebowitz and C. Maes -- F. Benatti -- J. Rissanen -- L.-S. Young -- M. Keane. Ch. 1. Pt. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Pt. 2. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Pt. 3. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Pt. 4. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17.
"The chapters were written to provide as cohesive an account as possible, making the book accessible to a wide range of graduate students and researchers. Any scientist dealing with systems that exhibit entropy will find the book an invaluable aid to understanding."--BOOK JACKET.