Entropy 2

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There are at least three ways of defining entropy: 



1. In terms of thermodynamics (the science of heat), where the names of 
Mayer, Joule, Carnot, and Clausius (1865) are important; 

2. In terms of statistical theory, which fosters the equivalence of entropy 
and disorder -- as a result of the work of Maxwell, Gibbs, and Boltzmann 
(1875), and 

3. In terms of information theory, which demonstrates the equivalence of 
neguentropy (the opposite of entropy) and information – as a result of the 
work of Szilard, Gabor, Rothstein, and Brillouin (1940-1950)
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