Entropy of the Normal Distribution

Here we calculate the entropy of the normal distribution and show that the normal distribution has maximal entropy amongst all distributions with a given finite variance.

The video belong concerns just the calculation of the entropy, not the maximality property.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGEVV_VjmU&w=560&h=315]

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