E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical PhysicsThe first six chapters of this volume present the author's 'predictive' or information theoretic' approach to statistical mechanics, in which the basic probability distributions over microstates are obtained as distributions of maximum entropy (Le., as distributions that are most non committal with regard to missing information among all those satisfying the macroscopically given constraints). There is then no need to make additional assumptions of