Tom Leinster's 442-page book "Entropy and Diversity: The Axiomatic Approach" freely available on arXiv
FrnkNlsn · x · 2026-09-05
Tom Leinster's book Entropy and Diversity: The Axiomatic Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2021, 442 pages) is freely readable on arXiv (v4). It applies axiomatic methods to quantify biological diversity, drawing on information theory, functional equations, probability, category theory, geometric measure theory and number theory. The main narrative requires only undergraduate analysis and no prior familiarity with entropy or diversity.
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