Maximum Entropy in Actio

This workshop series was initiated by Myron Tribus and Edwin T. Jaynes, and organised for the first time by C.Ray Smith and Walter T. Grandy in 1981 at the University in Wyoming. Since then, tremendous progress has been made and the number of publications based on Bayesian methods is impressive

During the last 30 years there have been several attempts at extending the notion of entropy to noncommutative dynamical systems. The authors present in the book the two most successful approaches to the extensions of measure entropy and topological entropy to the noncommutative setting and analyze in detail the main models in the theory.

Entropy can be used in studies on foundations of quantum physics in many different ways, each of them using different properties of this mathematical object. First of all, entropy can be intuitively understood and we can exploit that fact by finding ways to derive predictions of quantum mechanics without employing the full mathematical apparatus of that theory. Instead, we can propose operational axioms which we can more easily understand and try to find the reasons why the universe behaves in the way that it does.