Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo (born 9 January 1964) is a Spanish

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. He is mostly popular for the invention of the

Parrondo's paradox Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, describes how a combination of losing strategies can become a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A simple example involves two coin fl ...

and his contributions in the thermodynamical study of information.

Biography

Juan Parrondo received his bachelors degree in 1987 and defended his Ph.D at

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

in 1992. He started a permanent position at UCM at 1996. In the same year he invented the well-known

, according to which 2 losing strategies may win while working together. Since then, the paradox has been widely used in biology and finances. He has also completed a lot of research in the field of

information theory Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...

, mostly looking at information as a thermodynamic concept, which as a result of ergodicity breaking changed the

entropy Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse fields, from classical thermodynamics, where it was first recognized, to the micros ...

of the system.

Works by Juan M.R. Parrondo

"Noise-Induced Non-equilibrium Phase Transition" C. Van den Broeck, J. M. R. Parrondo and R. Toral, ''Physical Review Letters'', vol. 73 p. 3395 (1994)

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Home page of Juan M. R. Parrondo
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parrondo, Juan 1964 births Living people Scientists from Madrid Spanish physicists Probability theorists Complutense University of Madrid alumni

Biography

Works by Juan M.R. Parrondo

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