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Thermodynamic Measurements of Entropy
- Source :
- Magnetothermal Properties near Quantum Criticality in the Itinerant Metamagnet Sr3Ru2O7 ISBN: 9783642145230
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
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Abstract
- “My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, ‘You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”’—Claude Shannon (1948) [1].
Details
- ISBN :
- 978-3-642-14523-0
- ISBNs :
- 9783642145230
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Magnetothermal Properties near Quantum Criticality in the Itinerant Metamagnet Sr3Ru2O7 ISBN: 9783642145230
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........24ee7b737f4ce5ef95e7fe3a8d20fc65