I would suggest E.T. Jaynes’ excellent Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. While this is a book about Bayesian probability theory and it’s applications, it contains a great discussion of entropy, including, e.g., why entropy “works” in thermodynamics.
I would suggest E.T. Jaynes’ excellent Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. While this is a book about Bayesian probability theory and it’s applications, it contains a great discussion of entropy, including, e.g., why entropy “works” in thermodynamics.