Physics Is life the result of the laws of entropy? Nearly 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger used the physics of the day to try to understand the origins of life. Now, Stephon Alexander and Salvador ...

This article studies efficient data transmission, or "data compression", from the standpoint of the theory of epsilon entropy. The notion of the entropy of a "data source" is defined. This quantity ...

João F. D. Rodrigues, Maximum-Entropy Prior Uncertainty and Correlation of Statistical Economic Data, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July 2016), pp. 357-367 ...

Physics The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why? Entropy is the physicist’s magic word, invoked to answer to some of the biggest questions in cosmology. Yet a quantum ...