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Entropy and Order

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Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 30))

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Definitions which decouple entropy and disorder are given, and are illustrated by a very simple example.

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  1. P.T. Landsberg, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Oxford: University Press, 1978, p. 366).

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Landsberg, P.T. (1986). Entropy and Order. In: Kilmister, C.W. (eds) Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4718-4_3

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