Boltzmann's atom : the great debate that launched a revolution in physics / David Lindley.
Record details
- ISBN: 0684851865
- ISBN: 9780684851860
- Physical Description: xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : Free Press, [2001]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A letter from Bombay ; Lessons in obscurity -- Invisible world ; The kind of motion we call heat -- Dr. Boltzmann of Vienna ; The precocious genius -- Irreversible changes ; The enigma of entropy -- "You will not fit in" ; The daunting Prussians -- British engagement ; Parsons, lawyers, and physicists -- "It's easy to mistake a great stupidity for a great discovery" ; Philosophy seduces physics -- American innovations ; New world, new ideas -- Shock of the new ; The arrival of the atomic century -- Beethoven in heaven ; Shadows of the mind -- Annus mirablis, annus mortis ; Einstein rises, and a man fall.
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- Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906.
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