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The entropy concept springs from two roots. On the one hand, in classical thermodynamics, entropy is defined in an abstract manner as a thermody-namic variable of the system under consideration; on the other hand, in statistical mechanics, it is defined as a measure of the number of ways in which the elementary particles of the system may be arranged under the given circumstances.
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Fast, J.D. (1968). General Introduction. In: Entropy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15380-0_1
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