Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory (1995)
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@MISC{Gunawardena95statisticalmechanics,
author = {Jeremy Gunawardena and Bristol Bs Qz and A Workshop On "statistical Mechanics},
title = {Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
A workshop on "Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory" was held at HewlettPackard 's Basic Research Institute in the Mathematical Sciences (BRIMS) in Bristol, England from 5-9 June 1995. This document contains a report on the workshop, the abstracts of the talks and the accompanying bibliography. 1 Report on the workshop Statistical mechanics and information theory have been linked ever since the latter subject emerged out of the engineering demands of telecommunications. Claude Shannon's original paper on "A mathematical "theory of communication", [71], makes clear the analogy between information entropy and the "H" of Boltzmann's H-theorem. Earlier work of Szilard in attempting to exorcise Maxwell's demon gave a glimpse of the significance of information to physics, [7]. Since that time, the two fields have developed separately for the most part, although both have interacted fruitfully with the field of statistical inference and both have influenced the development of other ...
