熵的泛化及应用

Extension and Application of the Entropy

熵是热学中一个重要的物理概念,也是近年来一个发展特别活跃的基本概念。自1865年克劳休斯提出熵以来,随着各学科的相互渗透和科学综合化发展,熵概念已经远远超出物理学的范畴。信息熵的出现,成为了熵正式泛化的标志。目前,熵的概念在自然和社会科学的许多领域中得到广泛的推广和应用,熵已成为了一种新的世界观。

Entropy is one of the important concepts in calorifics and an especially active concept presented in recent years. Along with infiltraton and integration of knowledge, the concept of the entropy has already gone far beyond scopes of physics since it was brought forward by R.J.E. Clausius in 1865. Currently this notion has extended from thermodynamic entropy to information entropy that is a sign of extension of the entropy and has been widely applied to many fields of natural science and social science.