Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:24:16 +0100 Message-Id: <ïwB00> To: bogus From: pvalev@bas.bg (Pentcho Valev) Subject: Re: ENTROPY: Open Problems in Entropy and Information Studies In-Reply-To: <ENTROPY: Open Problems in Entropy and Information Studies>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:24:16 +0100
From: Pentcho Valev <pvalev@bas.bg>
To: entropy@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: ENTROPY: Open Problems in Entropy and Information Studies
Shu-Kun Lin wrote:
> Some problems like the entropy-information relation have been
> outstanding for many years. It might be interesting to discuss
> it within certain period of time. However, it might be useful if
> we put them together so that we can attack them slowly but
> steadily with clear targets. I am reading more papers these days.
> The topic brought forth by Professor Lambert is not as
> easy as we thought. Actually physicists, including several great
> minds of science, have been busy on it for many decades.
Who thought it was easy? What do great minds of science say? The topic
entropy-information was discussed a lot some time ago on a bionet group called
"bio-info". What I learned in the end was that there are about 2000 entropies
and their number is ever increasing (now they may have reached a number of
5000 or more). So any argument about one of them is, one one hand, useful for
the author's career, and on the other, relatively insignificant since it may
not be valid for the other 4999 entropies. I suspect great minds of science
are those who are not ashamed to benefit from this state of affairs.
Best regards,
Pentcho Valev
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