Talk:Maximum entropy probability distribution

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Who was the first to show that the normal has maximum entropy among all distributions on the real line with specified mean μ and standard deviation σ? A reference for this would be a nice addition to the article. Btyner 21:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)