Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics Thermodynamics of Probability Distributions and Stochastic Processes /

• Main Author: Matsoukas, Themis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Probabilities.; Chemical engineering.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Coding and Information Theory.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions. Extending Gibbs's notion of ensemble, the Author imagines the ensemble of all possible probability distributions and assigns probabilities to them by...