Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World

About Jonathan AlldaySimon Hands

Jonathan Allday taught physics at a range of schools in the UK. After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University. Shortly after this he started work on Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition which was intended as a rigorous but accessible introduction to these topics. Since then he has also written Apollo in Perspective Quantum Reality (now in its second edition) and Space-time co-authored a successful textbook and contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists. He has also written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science. Outside of physics Jonathan has a keen interest in cricket and Formula 1.Simon Hands was also educated at the Blue Coat School and Cambridge University followed by a PhD in theoretical particle physics at the University of Edinburgh. After research positions at the universities of Oxford Illinois Glasgow and then CERN he taught and researched theoretical and computational physics at Swansea University for almost 30 years. He moved to the University of Liverpool in 2021 where he helps manage the DiRAC high-performance computing facility for astronomy nuclear and particle physics theory. An elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales Simon enjoys singing and cycling.