History of Entropy - Terminology Overlap

Terminology Overlap

When necessary, to disambiguate between the statistical thermodynamic concept of entropy, and entropy-like formulae put forward by different researchers, the statistical thermodynamic entropy is most properly referred to as the Gibbs entropy. The terms Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy or BG entropy, and Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy or BGS entropy are also seen in the literature.

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