Table of Contents

Introduction and a Brief History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory and All the Rest; Let Us Play First with Real Dice; Next, Let's Play with Simplified Dice and Have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; Experience the Second Law with All Your Five Senses; Finally, Grasp It with Your Common Sense; Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; Reflections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics.

Reviews

This book makes very good reading for all students of thermodynamics, as well as for more-advanced people who do (or do not) feel comfortable with the fascinating concept of entropy. -- CERN Courier "CERN Courier"