But when you are gone, I stay around and hold things together. Without me, your work would have no meaning. It takes both, especially if the practice is to be taken to new areas. Probability as the limit of a sampling process. One very general principle, which leads us to SPC, is the principle of maximum entropy.
S represents entropy.
I illustrate this in a number of ways in the book. So do other authors on information theory. Edwin T. Jaynes is really the father of the maximum entropy principle. When you turn the mathematical crank, the distribution turns out to be the Gaussian or Normal distribution. This does not mean that the distribution IS Normal.