Ludwig Boltzmann : the man who trusted atoms / Carlo Cercignani.
Ludwig Boltzmann : the man who trusted atoms / Carlo Cercignani.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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1998.
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T0393673
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xvi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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England
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1998.
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Boltzmann was the centre of a scientific upheaval, and he has been proved right on many crucial issues. He anticipated Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and proposed a theory of knowledge based on Darwin. His basic results, when properly understood, can also be stated as mathematical theorems. Some of these have been proved; others are still...
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Ludwig Boltzmann : the man who trusted atoms / Carlo Cercignani.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
Transferred from N530.092/B694.1/1.
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T0393673
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0198501544
9780198501541
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530.092
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991006160209702626
