Anxiety and the equation : understanding Boltzmann's Entropy / Eric Johnson.
Anxiety and the equation : understanding Boltzmann's Entropy / Eric Johnson.
Anxiety and the equation : understanding Boltzmann's Entropy / Eric Johnson.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
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G 2018/6094
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English
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viii, 179 pages ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Boltzmann kills himself -- Boltzmann is buried (not once, but twice) -- Start simple -- Before things got weird -- Post-mortem psychiatry -- But how crazy? -- Not quite big numbers -- Big enough numbers -- And everything in between -- A case for anxiety -- Of the many benefits of modernity -- And ye...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
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Massachusetts
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[2018]
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"This is a story about a man and his equation. We learn in this story that entropy is the central quantity in something called the second law of thermodynamics. The second law is always on, running in the background of our lives, providing us with a way to differentiate between past and future. It provides us with an arrow of time: we know that the...
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Anxiety and the equation : understanding Boltzmann's Entropy / Eric Johnson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/6094
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74VKV8QV5J3g
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0262038617 hardcover alkaline paper
9780262038614 hardcover alkaline paper
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530.092
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991024191414802626
