Entropy and Information

Author:   Mikhail V. Volkenstein ,  Robert G. Burns ,  Abe Shenitzer
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   57
ISBN:  

9783034600774


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   14 August 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mikhail V. Volkenstein ,  Robert G. Burns ,  Abe Shenitzer
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   57
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9783034600774


ISBN 10:   3034600771
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   14 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.
Language:   Russian

Table of Contents

“Reflections on the motive power of fire...”.- The laws of thermodynamics.- Entropy and free energy.- Entropy and probability.- Statistics and mechanics.- Open systems.- Information.- Entropy, information, life.

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From the reviews: ""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)


From the reviews: 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)


From the reviews: 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)


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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.

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