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Information Theory

Entropy in thermodynamics and in information theory

V. A. Zorich

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We discuss the relation between the concepts of entropy in thermodynamics and in information theory.

Keywords: entropy, second law of thermodynamics, Boltzmann entropy, Shannon entropy, Maxwell’s demon.

UDC: 621.391 : 536.75 : 519.722

Received: 13.05.2022
Revised: 13.05.2022
Accepted: 18.05.2022

DOI: 10.31857/S0555292322020016

 English version: Problems of Information Transmission, 2022, 58:2, 103–110