Well, there’s also the issue that they’re fundamentally the same thing.
This is hindsight. In 1948, Shannon and von Neumann were obviously aware of a deep analogy, but nothing more than that. The position you take was made popular by Jaynes only in 1957, nine years later.
Made popular by, yes. Invented? Not according to Jaynes, who saw it as implicit in the work of Gibbs.
Well, there’s also the issue that they’re fundamentally the same thing.
This is hindsight. In 1948, Shannon and von Neumann were obviously aware of a deep analogy, but nothing more than that. The position you take was made popular by Jaynes only in 1957, nine years later.
Made popular by, yes. Invented? Not according to Jaynes, who saw it as implicit in the work of Gibbs.