You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.


Suggesting to Claude Shannon a name for his new uncertainty function, as quoted in Scientific American Vol. 225 No. 3, (1971), p. 180.

John von Neumann Quotes

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so...

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so...

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so...

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so...