Date Created: 1957-03-10

Creator: Jaynes, E. T.

Contributor(s): Everett, Hugh, annotator

Description: One of the most successful physicists of the generation immediately before Hugh Everett III, E. T. Jaynes shared both Everett's interest in applications of information theory to physics and his foundational orientation. But whereas Everett focused on quantum mechanics, much of Jaynes' work concerned how to use information theory in thermodynamics. This document is a single page from Jaynes' paper "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics," Physical Review, 106, 620-630 (1957). Based on the basic content of his penciled observations, Everett wrote to Jaynes with an analysis of the flaws in Jaynes paper. He enclosed a copy of his own relative states preprint. Jaynes wrote back at great length.

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1140

Title: Hugh Everett marginal notes on page from E. T. Jaynes' "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics"

Subjects: Jaynes, E. T. | Information Theory in Physics

Type: Archives and Manuscripts

Language: en_US

Rights: This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners and Professor Jeffrey A. Barrett. The author(s) of the material or their heirs retain copyright to this material.
Used with the permission of the estate of Hugh Everett, III.

Provenance: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2008 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.

Publisher: University of California, Irvine Libraries. Irvine, California 92623-9557. http://www.lib.uci.edu.