e99 Online Shopping Mall
Help | |
Home - Pure And Applied Math - Entropy (Books) |
  | 1-20 of 100 | Next 20 |
click price to see details click image to enlarge click link to go to the store
1. Entropy:A New World View by Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard | |
Mass Market Paperback: 302
Pages
(1981-10)
list price: US$3.95 Isbn: 0553202154 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (11)
provoking yet unaccurate
This is THE most important book I ever read ...
rocked my world
Great food for thought
His doomsday is here and we did not listen |
2. Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense by Arieh Ben-Naim | |
Paperback: 250
Pages
(2008-06-18)
list price: US$33.00 -- used & new: US$20.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 9812832254 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Written in an accessible style, the book guides the reader through an abundance of dice games and examples from everyday life. The author paves the way for readers to discover for themselves what entropy is, how it changes, and, most importantly, why it always changes in one direction in a spontaneous process. In this new edition, seven simulated games are included so that the reader can actually experiment with the games described in the book. These simulated games are meant to enhance the readers understanding and sense of joy upon discovering the second law of thermodynamics. Contents: Programs for Simulating Some of the Games in the Book; Introduction, and a Short History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and All the Rest; First Let Us Play with Real Dice; Let s Play with Simplified Dice and Have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; Experience the Second Law with All Your Five Senses; Finally, Grasp It with Your Common Sense; Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics. Customer Reviews (26)
A uniquely written book
A book to be read
A Common Sense Approach to Entropy
"Demythifying" the mystery of entropy
A book for lay audience |
3. Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome by John C Sanford | |
Paperback: 248
Pages
(2008-03-01)
list price: US$16.95 -- used & new: US$11.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0981631606 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (32)
An expose of population genetics, among other virtues of the book
Compelling
This guy is an 'expert' on genetics?
The beginning of a comprehensive understanding of genetics and if evolution fits in.
Neo-Darwinism - the final nail in the coffin! |
4. Discover Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: A Playful Way of Discovering a Law of Nature by Arieh Ben-Naim | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2010-08-03)
list price: US$44.00 -- used & new: US$34.81 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 9814299766 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description The main "value" of the book is to introduce entropy and the Second Law in simple language which renders it accessible to any reader who can read and is curious about the basic laws of nature. The book is addressed to anyone interested in science and in understanding natural phenomenon. It will afford the reader the opportunity to discover one of the most fundamental laws of physics - a law that has resisted complete understanding for over a century. The book is also designed to be enjoyable. There is no other book of its kind (except "Entropy Demystified" by the same author) that offers the reader a unique opportunity to discover one of the most profound laws - sometimes viewed as a mysterious - while comfortably playing with familiar games. There are no pre-requisites expected from the readers; all that the reader is expected to do is to follow the experiments or imagine doing the experiments and reach the inevitable conclusions. Customer Reviews (2)
A very good introduction to Entropy that is accessable to all
A playful way to discover the Second Law of Thermodynamics |
5. Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity (Oxford Master Series in Physics) by James P. Sethna | |
Paperback: 376
Pages
(2006-06-01)
list price: US$65.00 -- used & new: US$34.78 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0198566778 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (9)
Not good
Short on info, long on problems
Great book, got me into the subject
Deep, thoughtful, and beautiful introduction to the field
A terrific, contemporary and courageous textbook |
6. Entropy by Viola Grace | |
Kindle Edition:
Pages
(2010-08-04)
list price: US$3.99 Asin: B003ZK56WO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description |
7. ENTROPY EFFECT (CLASSIC STAR TREK 2) (Star Trek (Numbered Paperback)) by Mcintyre | |
Mass Market Paperback:
Pages
(1990-04-15)
list price: US$5.50 -- used & new: US$5.54 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0671724169 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordeauxs, accused of promising to send people back in time -- then killing them instead. But there's more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordeaux's experiments have somehow throw the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself -- and only Spock can stop The Entropy Effect! Customer Reviews (10)
Another great Audio Book!!!
Firmly in the top 10% of all Star Trek novels
my first
Mystery and Suspense mixed with the Star Trek theme! In my opinion, even though Star Trek usually goes overboard in their time travel stories, this one is written very well and is not to corny. Vonda McIntyre mixes mystery and suspense along with the original Star Trek theme. I found myself not wanting to put the book down -as to see the conclusion of the suspense and mystery. Vonda McIntyre stayed in on the Star Trek theme and focused on character development. In this story the story focused mainly on Spock and Sulu. There is the usual romance for Kirk. It's not really a romance. He runs into an old flame that gets him thinking about marriage, life, etc. But here Sulu has the more passionate and tender romance and Spock meets up with an old science mentor who is the hero/villian of the story. This book is a great read and hard to put down! Enjoy! -rlw
Entropy Effects The Enterprise is dispatched to observe a singularity, and discover the reason for its appearence. None like it, with no apparent explanation for its existence, has been observed previously. Spock is the closest qualified observer, and so he conducts the measurements, as the Enterprise spends six weeks in close proximity to the dangerous gravity well and radiation output. As Spock is working on the confirming observations, the Enterprise receives a top-priority call to a nearby starbase. The starbase personnel are confused, but they do have one duty that must be carried out: the ferrying of a dangerous prisoner to a maximum-security facility. The prisoner turns out to be a former physics teacher of Spock's, and the Vulcan cannot understand the danger posed. All records of the trial have been sealed and/or expunged. Soon after the prisoner is taken on board, he breaks onto the bridge and shoots Captain Kirk with a spiderweb bullet, a terrorist device which causes prolonged death with great pain. The crew is horrified. The new security chief, Commander Flynn, is also killed in the assault. Spock finds that the dangerous nature of the prisoner, and his crime, is related to the professor's discovery of a simple method for time travel. This has also caused the singularity to appear, so the method is increasing the entropy of the universe, and will cause its end in less than 100 years. Spock must travel back in time himself to repair the damage to the time continuum, and save his captain and the universe. McIntyre writes well, and the book has a good plot, so the problem here is mostly with characterization. So many of the regulars are out of character that it is often hard to take the book seriously. The author obviously likes Sulu, and to an extent Spock, while disliking Scotty and Kirk. Scott only gets "grumpy old man" stuff to do, and shows no other side of his character, aside from a measure of loyalty to Kirk. The captain is killed off halfway through the book, and might have remained that way had this book been made only of McIntyre's characters (which would have made a better book). The author also is enamored with her own characters, Commander Flynn and her security crew, and Captain Hunter, an old lover of Kirk's and the captain of a border patrol ship. There is a strongly feminist bent here, despite the small amount of time given to Uhura. The spiderweb bullet is a good invention, a projectile with tendrils that grow and crush the nervous system, reaching to the brain. The problem is, at one point McIntyre writes about visible tendrils that Spock avoids on a near-miss shot. Tendrils small enough to infiltrate the nervous system would likely be invisible to the naked eye. And another thing: when Spock endeavors to go back through time, he tells only McCoy, and ostensibly leaves the Doctor in charge of the ship. At no time was McCoy ever shown to be a command officer, and it would have been procedure (which Spock would have followed) to inform Scotty, who both was the next ranking officer, and thus should have been designated the conn, as well as being able to help to engineer the necessary parts for time travel. It's a good story. It just doesn't work, as written, as a Star Trek story. ... Read more |
8. Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order, 40th Anniversary Edition by Rudolf Arnheim | |
Paperback: 72
Pages
(2010-08-02)
list price: US$17.95 -- used & new: US$10.93 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0520266005 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
A Classic from a Master |
9. Engines, Energy, And Entropy: A Thermodynamics Primer by John B. Fenn | |
Paperback: 293
Pages
(2003-06-30)
list price: US$29.95 -- used & new: US$29.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0966081382 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (5)
A Great Introduction for Non-Technical Readers
Thermodynamics made understandable - but never easy.
Understandable by Scientist and Layperson
Suitable for the non-specialist general reader
Nobel Prize Winner's View |
10. Maximum Entropy Econometrics: Robust Estimation with Limited Data by Amos Golan, George G. Judge, Douglas Miller | |
Hardcover: 324
Pages
(1996-04-19)
list price: US$180.00 -- used & new: US$75.63 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0471953113 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description |
11. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen | |
Paperback: 476
Pages
(1999-11-23)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$18.75 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1583486003 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description "The entropy of the physical universe increases constantly because there is a continuous and irrevocable qualitative degradation of order into chaos. The entropic nature of the economic process, which degrades natural resources and pollutes the environment, constitutes the present danger. The earth is entropically winding down naturally, and economic advance is accelerating the process. Man must learn to ration the meager resources he has so profligately squandered if he is to survive in the long run when the entropic degradation of the sun will be the crucial factor, "for suprising as it may seem, the entire stock of natural resources is not worth more than a few days of sunlight!" Georgescu-Rogen has written our generation's classic in the field of economics."—Library Journal Customer Reviews (10)
A classic book that establishes the bases for sustainable development policy
Mixed bag of valuable insights and dated rant (3.5 stars)
TheEntropy Law and the Economic Process
Brilliant, but not Perfect
Good intentions no substitute for poor science |
12. Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(1990-01-22)
list price: US$73.00 -- used & new: US$45.68 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0201515067 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
Masterful.Just plain masterful. |
13. Entropy by Thomas PYNCHON | |
Paperback: 16
Pages
(1983)
Asin: B000ILF1HI Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. Entropy Analysis: An Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics by N.C. Craig | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1992-04-07)
-- used & new: US$187.32 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 3527895396 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (2)
Outstanding book; ridiculous price
Good, but... |
15. Sons of Entropy(Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gatekeeper Trilogy) by Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder | |
Mass Market Paperback: 336
Pages
(1999-05-01)
list price: US$6.99 -- used & new: US$0.02 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0671027506 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description All Hell is Breaking Loose Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from the clutches of the zealots who hold her hostage. With the Gatekeeper rapidly weakening, Buffy sends Willow and Cordelia to escort Xander along the Ghost Roads to the Gatehouse, which may hold his only hope of survival. Meanwhile, she, Giles, and an unlikely band of allies take their fight to the very mouth of Hell itself, desperately hoping to save Joyce and repel the evil spawn before Sunnydale becomes a demonic ground zero. Only then can Buffy safeguard the Gatekeeper's eleven-year-old heir, the only one able to prevent the ultimate destruction of humanity. Customer Reviews (29)
Jhaeman's Review
A great Buffy the Vampire Slayer trilogy
The concluding book in an epic Buffy trilogy Ironically, in this particular book Buffy has less to do that most of the other characters.It was certainly nice to see that Xander have a bright shinning moment as the substitute Gatekeeper.His character has been the comic relief for the Scooby Gang for so long that you forget he brought Buffy back from the dead at the end of season one.They also do a nice job of getting to what Cordelia is thinking behind her tactless remarks, but Oz is back to quipping a bit too much as he was in Book One and Willow is much more of a successful little spellcaster than she has yet to be in the television episodes.Still, I feel they are on the right track with most of these character developments. However, the character who really shines in this volume is Joyce Summers, dealing with being the mother of the Slayer as best she can. After including Spike and Drusilla in the previous volume as a minor plot complication (I really was expecting more from them), the authors have Ethan Rayne makes a much more substantive guest appearance in this concluding volume, although he is really just a plot contrivance.The truly tragic figure that emerges from this trilogy is Jacques Regnier, the young boy who has to become the Gatekeeper following the death of his father.His fate is different from that of Buffy as the Slayer, but he is also a Chosen One and there is a certain pathos to his having too grow up too quickly. The creation of the Gatekeeper and the Gatehouse are the best ideas I have come across in the Buffy books so far, and are worthy of being included in the mythos of the television series.I was surprised to see that the historical flashbacks on the story of Giacomo Fulcanelli, Il Maestro, were substantially less than in the previous volumes, although his back story is concluded. The resolution to the Gatekeeper storyline in "Sons of Entropy" works pretty well, more so with the Gatekeeper's part of the battle than with Buff's final confrontation with the demon Belphegor.I have never really liked the idea that the Achilles heel of the bad guys is that they all lie to their stupid minions who tend to betray them at the right moment.I would much rather see the good guys rise to the occasion and do so without the old chestnut of figuring out the meaning of the key clue at the last moment.The idea of the Gatekeeper and the Gatehouse merging in a new way was a very credible solution.Again, I know that my expectations were so high that Joss Whedon himself would have problems coming up with a conclusion that would truly top the marvelous set up.If you have read and enjoyed any of the original Buffy novels, you have to treat yourself to the Gatekeeper Trilogy.
A Fantastic Final Chapter
serial novels come to life The tv series is wildlypopular with the young crowd and the old crowd that is young at heart,Angel being the series for older people with a lot more dark content. Butthe Buffy books written for adults offers a depth and an insight into whatteens are going through today.Women have changed at a very basic level inour society.No longer do we see the tough mail hero.We see girls andwomen filling those roles and trying to keep it all together.In thisseries we see a reflection of having to grow up too young both in theslayerettes and in Jacques an 11 year old that will spend 100's of yearskeeping evil out of the world and bad things at bay.Giving up anychildhood that older people might have enjoyed. The symbolism of thisbook is deep drugs violence gangs the world is very different.Keep yourminds open grown ups and understand that being a child or a kid today isvery different than when you were that age that the rules have changed andnobody gave them a rule book and the symbolism will jump out at you. Theonly disappointing thing is Angel and Buffy....Give me a break I feel likeafter a couple of hundred years one would gain some wisdom.Why doesn'tangel display it he makes the same mistakes over and over again.He needsto be the Slayers paramour or else he would be dust ... Read more |
16. The Entropy Tango by Michael Moorcock | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(1987-05-01)
-- used & new: US$41.06 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0450056635 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
Super Reader |
17. A Farewell To Entropy by Arieh Ben-Naim | |
Paperback: 412
Pages
(2008-01-18)
list price: US$65.00 -- used & new: US$49.82 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 9812707077 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description It has been 140 years since Clausius coined the term entropy ; almost 50 years since Shannon developed the mathematical theory of information subsequently renamed entropy. In this book, the author advocates replacing entropy by information, a term that has become widely used in many branches of science. The author also takes a new and bold approach to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Information is used not only as a tool for predicting distributions but as the fundamental cornerstone concept of thermodynamics, held until now by the term entropy. The topics covered include the fundamentals of probability and information theory; the general concept of information as well as the particular concept of information as applied in thermodynamics; the re-derivation of the Sackur Tetrode equation for the entropy of an ideal gas from purely informational arguments; the fundamental formalism of statistical mechanics; and many examples of simple processes the driving force for which is analyzed in terms of information. Contents: Elements of Probability Theory; Elements of Information Theory; Transition from the General MI to the Thermodynamic MI; The Structure of the Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics; Some Simple Applications. Customer Reviews (5)
As if there isn't enough confusion already...
A bridge between information theory and thermodynamics sure to inspire a new generation of developments in statistical mechanics
an insightful and clear book on a controversial subject
A modern approach to statistical thermodynamics
The basics of Statistics, Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics in a nutshell |
18. Entropy Theory of Aging Systems: Humans, Corporations and the Universe by Daniel Hershey | |
Hardcover: 276
Pages
(2009-08-14)
list price: US$65.00 -- used & new: US$50.70 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1848162928 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description |
19. Entropy (Princeton Studies in Applied Mathematics) | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(2003-10-06)
list price: US$87.00 -- used & new: US$58.72 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0691113386 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description The aim of this book is to identify the unifying threads by providing surveys of the uses and concepts of entropy in diverse areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. Two major threads, emphasized throughout the book, are variational principles and Ljapunov functionals. The book starts by providing basic concepts and terminology, illustrated by examples from both the macroscopic and microscopic lines of thought. In-depth surveys covering the macroscopic, microscopic and probabilistic approaches follow. Part I gives a basic introduction from the views of thermodynamics and probability theory. Part II collects surveys that look at the macroscopic approach of continuum mechanics and physics. Part III deals with the microscopic approach exposing the role of entropy as a concept in probability theory, namely in the analysis of the large time behavior of stochastic processes and in the study of qualitative properties of models in statistical physics. Finally in Part IV applications in dynamical systems, ergodic and information theory are presented. The chapters were written to provide as cohesive an account as possible, making the book accessible to a wide range of graduate students and researchers. Any scientist dealing with systems that exhibit entropy will find the book an invaluable aid to their understanding. |
20. Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life by Jeremy Campbell | |
Hardcover: 319
Pages
(1982-07)
list price: US$16.95 Isbn: 0671440616 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (8)
Truly interesting, a book to read more than once
Bridging a gap
An Intro to Information Theory Campbell attacks Darwin's theory, writing, "One major difficulty is that the central argument of Darwinian theory circles back on itself, explaining nothing." He goes into detail on why evolution is unscientific. The brain makes decisions along the way as to what information it will process and how it will interpret what it takes in. "All seeing is interpretation" he writes. He describes the "editing" process of the brain: "...that does not imply that memory necessarily preserves the original meaning intact. The brain goes to work on information while it is being stored in memory,interpreting, drawing inferences, making assumptions, fitting it into a context of past experience and knowledge already acquired." This is a helpful book on information theory, the workings of the brain, and the process of interpreting what one sees. It will open the mind of the nonjudgmental reader.
Grammatical man is also very verbose
somewhat "outdated" This was no doubt a radical and satisfying read when it first came out in the early 1980s, but the subject area has matured since then. I will recommend the very recent "Mother Nature's Two Laws" by A. D. Kirwan as a fine alternative. ... Read more |
  | 1-20 of 100 | Next 20 |