QUOTE OF THE DAY
Of course, the maximum-entropy algorithm originated with Boltzmann and Gibbs. But in their writings they did not make its meaning crystal clear --Boltzmann because he was not very clear in his own mind, repeatedly changing his position, and Gibbs because his work was left unfinished. In Gibbs' 'Heterogeneous Equilibrium' (1875-1878), in fact, we find a much clearer and deeper explanation of the properties of entropy than in his final work, Statistical Mechanics (1902). Therefore, as far as the rationale of the method was concerned, Boltzmann and Gibbs left a kind of vacuum that was filled, as such vacua always are, by followers whose thinking had little in common with that of Boltzmann, and nothing in common with that of Gibbs.
-- Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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