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ORIGIN OF MY ADVENTURE WITH ENTROPY
a measure of uncertainty or randomness; lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. Entropy may be seen both from the point of view of thermodynamics and from the information theory, as an expression of system heterogeneity. > Information theory is essential for understanding and treating cancer. My fascination with entropy has started decades ago while reading the first edition of > Stanisław Lem, SUMMA TECHNOLOGIAE, Kraków 1964.

This rare panoramic view of Cracow below: CRACOVIA METROPOLIS REGNI POLONIAE by Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg was published in Cologne in 1618. Certain details would date the view to before 1596, when King Sigismund moved the capital to Warsaw, abandoning Wawel Castle.

CREATOR/CONTRIBUTOR:
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622, creator
Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590
Kempen, Gottfried von, active 1576-1598

PLACE OF ORIGIN: Germany

SUBJECTS: Kraków (Poland)--Aerial Views--Early works to 1800
NOTES: Shows names of some churches and buildings. Includes index to points of interest. Available also as a digital image through the Harvard University Library Web site. REPOSITORY: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University RECORD ID: 990097027600203941

✤ Why Entropy?  ✤ Entropy Arguments
✤ Survival of the Friendliest
✤ Recent Therapies
✤ Intergalactic Polemic
✤ Bibliography

Above an ESO’s image of Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 & NGC 4039