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The background of this is explained in Where Do We Stand? (1978), also reprinted below. It started in 1951 as a private communication, the original purpose being only to convey the new ideas of Information Theory to Professor G. Uhlenbeck, in hope of enlisting his support and getting his constructive suggestions as to how these ideas might be implemented in Statistical Mechanics.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics I (1957). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_2
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