Timeline for What's the motivation of entropy as a combinatorical tool? What problems is it able to solve?
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 22:10 | history | edited | Tom Leinster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Boltzmann's grave has $S = k \log W$ inscribed on it: here $S$ is the entropy, $k$ is his eponymous constant, and $W$ is the number of configurations of a system. So this perspective dates literally to the beginning. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 17:18 | comment | added | Andy | Thanks, there is also the proof of Shannon's coding theorem where it arises naturally. I feel like your example is related to entropy, but I don't see why we'd pursue it further from there (i.e condition entropy and such don't seem to generalize to your example). | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 17:11 | history | answered | Tom Leinster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |