My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
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