TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greven,Andreas
AU  - Keller,Gerhard
AU  - Warnecke,Gerald
TI  - Entropy
SN  - 9788122431285
AV  - QC318.E57 E55 2003
U1  - 536.73 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - New Age International
KW  - Entropy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-350) and index; Ch. 1; Introduction; A. Greven, G. Keller and G. Warnecke --; Pt. 1; Fundamental Concepts --; Ch. 2; Entropy: a Subtle Concept in Thermodynamics; I. Muller --; Ch. 3; Probabilistic Aspects of Entropy; H.-O. Georgii --; Pt. 2; Entropy in Thermodynamics --; Ch. 4; Phenomenological Thermodynamics and Entropy Principles; K. Hutter and Y. Wang --; Ch. 5; Entropy in Nonequilibrium; I. Muller --; Ch. 6; Entropy for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws; C. M. Dafermos --; Ch. 7; Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; J. Uffink --; Ch. 8; The Entropy of Classical Thermodynamics; E. H. Lieb and J. Yngvason --; Pt. 3; Entropy in Stochastic Processes --; Ch. 9; Large Deviations and Entropy; S. R. S. Varadhan --; Ch. 10; Relative Entropy for Random Motion in a Random Medium; F. den Hollander --; Ch. 11; Metastability and Entropy; E. Olivieri --; Ch. 12; Entropy Production in Driven Spatially Extended Systems; C. Maes --; Ch. 13; Entropy: a Dialogue; J. L. Lebowitz and C. Maes --; Pt. 4; Entropy and Information --; Ch. 14; Classical and Quantum Entropies: Dynamics and Information; F. Benatti --; Ch. 15; Complexity and Information in Data; J. Rissanen --; Ch. 16; Entropy in Dynamical Systems; L.-S. Young --; Ch. 17; Entropy in Ergodic Theory; M. Keane
N2  - "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
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