Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics – Good Read on Advanced Entropy Formulation
Advances in Thinking about Entropy
Starting through Tsallis’s book on entropy; Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics.
This is a fascinating discussion – really, it’s the roots of philosophy; the real “what-is-so” about the world. Which minimally requires a good solid year or two of graduate-level statistical thermodynamics to even start the read. But worth it.
There’s some potential applications of this approach to areas in which I’ve worked before; need to mull this over and jig some ideas about to be certain.
On another note, found the folks over at n-Category Café today; online forum, connects to a blog that led to a good article. They style themselves as “A group blog on math, physics and philosophy,” and this actually makes sense.
Interactions here between John Baez, Tobias Fritz, and Tom Leinster 4emailled to the paper A Characterization of Entropy in Terms of Information Loss. Just starting on this read.