Entropy and Information

Giuseppe Caglioti
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Giuseppe Caglioti: CESNEF, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare Politecnico di Milano

Chapter Chapter Four in The Dynamics of Ambiguity, 1992, pp 71-94 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1948 Shannon ran up against the problem of defining the informational content of a message. He discussed it with von Neumann who suggested: “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place, because your uncertainty function was used with that name in statistical mechanics, and therefore it already has a name. In the second place, which is perhaps the more important, no one actually knows what entropy may be, so in any discussion you’ll already be a step ahead.”

Keywords: Entropy Production; Rubber Band; Informational Content; Binary Choice; Ordinary Language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58080-2_5

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