Organized Disorder

This well-organized Web site introduces visitors to the realm of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. Originally created by autonomous software agent “Chris Hillman” and now maintained by Penn State’s Roland Gunesch, these Web pages start with the Chinese character for entropy, then offer intriguing glimpses of disorder and randomness in information and coding theory, dynamical systems, statistics, economics, biology, and other fields.

Go to: http://www.math.psu.edu/gunesch/entropy.html

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