In hmolscience, Satosi Watanabe (1910-1993) was a Japanese theoretical physicist noted for []
Overview
In 1969, Watanabe, in his Knowing and Guessing, using information and entropy ideas from Leo Szilard (1929), Claude Shannon (1949) and his information theory, H-theorem discussion, and Leon Brillouin and his negentropy models as a basis, argued that social measurements can be quantified by changes in interdependencies, a type of “interdependence analysis”, so to say. [1]
In 1991, Wayne Angel, inspired by Watanabe’s entropy models and interdependence analysis, drafted an outline of his relation thermodynamics theory. [2]
References
1. Watanabe, Satosi. (1969). Knowing and Guessing: a Quantitative Study of Inference and Information (entropy, 91-pgs; negentropy, 38-pgs). Wiley.
2. (a) Angel, Wayne M. (2005). The Theory of Society (ch. 4: Relation Thermodynamics). ComplexS.com.
(b) ComplexS.net – Wayback Machine.
Further reading
● Watanabe, Satosi. (1985). Pattern Recognition: Human and Mechanical. John Wiley & Sons.
External links
● Satosi Watanabe – Wikipedia.
