Entropy and diversity : (Record no. 655145)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781108832700
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 512/.62
Edition number 23
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Source of Number Colon Classification
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Leinster, Tom,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Entropy and diversity :
Sub Title the axiomatic approach /
Statement of responsibility, etc Tom Leinster, University of Edinburgh.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages pages cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The global biodiversity crisis is one of humanity's most urgent problems, but even quantifying biological diversity is a difficult mathematical and conceptual challenge. This book brings new mathematical rigour to the ongoing debate. It was born of research in category theory, is given strength by information theory, and is fed by the ancient field of functional equations. It applies the power of the axiomatic method to a biological problem of pressing concern, but it also presents new theorems that stand up as mathematics in their own right, independently of any application. The question 'what is diversity?' has surprising mathematical depth, and this book covers a wide breadth of mathematics, from functional equations to geometric measure theory, from probability theory to number theory. Despite this range, the mathematical prerequisites are few: the main narrative thread of this book requires no more than an undergraduate course in analysis"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Categories (Mathematics)
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Biodiversity
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Biodiversity
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Number of species
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Entropy (Information theory)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Reference Dept. of Mathematics Dept. of Mathematics 12/10/2023 512.62 LEI.E MAT8004 22/08/2022 Reference