Papers on probability, statistics and statistical physics. Ed. by R. D. Rosenkrantz.

Publication date: 17 September 1992

Published in: Synthese Library (Search for Journal in Brave)

statistical mechanics metrical transitivity reversible dynamics connection between statistical mechanics and information theory Gibbs and Boltzman entropy macroscopic irreversible behaviour prior probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02)

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