In human thermodynamics, Benjamin Gayle Kyle (1927-) is an American emeritus chemical engineering professor, associated with Kansas State University, noted for his 1988 article “The Mystique of Entropy”, in which he speculates on various aspects of the second law in regards to humanity and social science. The article was revised and reprinted in his 1999 multi-chaptered essay Entropy: Reflections of a Classical Thermodynamicist.

In this work, he discusses the views of those of English author William Inge (God and entropy), French philosopher Pierre Teilhard (evolution, thermodynamics, and spirituality), American historian Henry Adams (social energy and entropy), Claude Levi-Strauss (entropology), and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (economics and the second law), among others, such as Herman Daly, Jeremy Rifkin, Rudolf Arnheim, etc. [1]

Kyle’s end section, to this chapter, entitled “commentary”, makes an attempt to dig out a sort of philosophical insight on how to live by following a negligible entropy change path (ΔS ≈ 0) in life.

1999 textbook by Kyle containing an attached CD-ROM with the “The Mystique of Entropy” article.

References
1. Kyle, Benjamin G. (1988). “The Mystique of Entropy” (abstract), Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 22., pgs. 92-97. Spr.
2. (a) Kyle, Benjamin G. (1999). Entropy: Reflections of a Classical Thermodynamicist (ch. 8: The Mystique of Entropy, 15 pgs.). Kansas State University; first published on attached CD-ROM to Chemical and Process Thermodynamics (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, 1999.

External links
● Kyle, B.G. (Benjamin Gayle) – WorldCat Identities.