Entropy and Diversity: The Axiomatic Approach

by Tom Leinster

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108832709
• ISBN13: 9781108832700
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"