Term
Entropy
In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty of a message or an event. The more possibilities there are and the harder it is to guess the outcome, the higher the entropy.
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, William Poundstone
Explained in
- Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, William Poundstone
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
A measure of disorder: how many ways the parts of a system can be rearranged while it looks the same from the outside.
- Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Brian Greene
A measure of disorder: how many ways the particles of a system can be rearranged so that, from the outside, it looks the same.
- Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family, James E. Hughes Jr.
A concept from physics: the tendency of a system toward disorder. Hughes uses it as an image of how family wealth can fall apart without fresh effort. An image from the book, not a calculation.