Selected references on entropy, thermodynamics, information theory, and related topics.
Foundational Texts
Carnot, Sadi. “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” (1824)
Clausius, Rudolf. “On the Moving Force of Heat” (1850)
Boltzmann, Ludwig. “On the Relationship between the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Probability” (1877)
Shannon, Claude. “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” (1948)
Contemporary Analysis
Carroll, Sean. “From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time” (2010)
Prigogine, Ilya. “Order Out of Chaos” (1984)
Schrödinger, Erwin. “What is Life?” (1944)
Information and Complexity
Bennett, Charles. “Notes on Landauer’s Principle, Reversible Computation, and Maxwell’s Demon” (2003)
Gell-Mann, Murray. “The Quark and the Jaguar” (1994)
Related Concepts
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (2012)
Kauffman, Stuart. “The Origins of Order” (1993)
This bibliography will be expanded as the site develops