05344nam 2200661Ia 450 991079224610332120200520144314.00-19-160698-70-19-850154-41-4294-6929-31-280-84567-8(CKB)2560000000298321(EBL)422466(OCoLC)437108603(SSID)ssj0000194800(PQKBManifestationID)11189393(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194800(PQKBWorkID)10241115(PQKB)11625933(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072305(MiAaPQ)EBC422466(Au-PeEL)EBL422466(CaPaEBR)ebr10177917(CaONFJC)MIL84567(EXLCZ)99256000000029832120051025e20061998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLudwig Boltzmann[electronic resource] the man who trusted atoms /Carlo CercignaniOxford Oxford University Press2006, c19981 online resource (348 p.)Originally published: 1998.0-19-857064-3 0-19-171794-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Figure acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A short biography of Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.1 Youth and happy years; 1.2 The crisis; 1.3 Restlessness; 1.4 Scientific debates and travels; 1.5 The tragic fate of a great scientist; 1.6 Boltzmann as a teacher; 1.7 Boltzmann and inventions; 1.8 Ludwig Boltzmann and his times; 1.9 A poem by Ludwig Boltzmann; 1.10 Boltzmann's personality; 2 Physics before Boltzmann; 2.1 From Galileo and Newton to the early atomic theories; 2.2 The first connections between heat and mechanical energy; 2.3 The springtime of thermodynamics2.4 Electricity and magnetism3 Kinetic theory before Boltzmann; 3.1 Early kinetic theories; 3.2 The beginnings of modern kinetic theory and the problem of justifying the Second Law; 4 The Boltzmann equation; 4.1 Irreversibility and kinetic theory; 4.2 The great paper of 1872; 4.3 A critique of Boltzmann's approach; 5 Time irreversibility and H-theorem; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Loschmidt's paradox; 5.3 Poincaré's recurrence and Zermelo's paradox; 5.4 The physical and mathematical resolution of the paradoxes; 5.5 Time's arrow and the expanding universe5.6 Is irreversibility objective or subjective?5.7 Concluding remarks; 6 Boltzmann's relation and the statistical interpretation of entropy; 6.1 The probabilistic interpretation of thermodynamics; 6.2 Explicit use of probability for a gas with discrete energies; 6.3 Energy is continuous; 6.4 The so-called H-curve; 7 Boltzmann, Gibbs, and equilibrium statistical mechanics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A great American scientist of the nineteenth century: J.W. Gibbs; 7.3 Why is statistical mechanics usually attributed to Gibbs and not to Boltzmann?; 7.4 Gibbs's treatise7.5 French scientists on statistical mechanics7.6 The problem of trend to equilibrium and ergodic theory; 7.7 Planck and statistical mechanics; 8 The problem of polyatomic molecules; 8.1 The problem of specific heats; 8.2 The H-theorem for polyatomic molecules; 8.3 Specific heats again; 8.4 Boltzmann's ideas on specific heats, and twentieth century contributions; 9 Boltzmann's contributions to other branches of physics; 9.1 Boltzmann's testing of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism; 9.2 Boltzmann lays the foundations of hereditary mechanics; 9.3 Back to electromagnetism9.4 A true pearl of theoretical physics9.5 Mathematics and foundations of mechanics; 10 Boltzmann as a philosopher; 10.1 A realist, but not a naïve one; 10.2 Laws of thought and scientific concepts; 10.3 Ethics, aesthetics, religion; 10.4 Philosophy of science; 10.5 Boltzmann's views on scientific revolutions; 10.6 Boltzmann's education in philosophy; 10.7 Did Boltzmann abandon realism?; 11 Boltzmann and his contemporaries; 11.1 The contacts between Boltzmann and his colleagues; 11.2 Maxwell; 11.3 Lorentz; 11.4 Boltzmann and the energetists; 11.5 Planck; 11.6 Students and younger colleagues12 The influence of Boltzmann's ideas on the science and technology of the twentieth centuryThe book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann. His tragic life ending with his suicide is described in detail. A substantial part of the book is devoted to discussing his work establishing the atomic structure of matter and his influence on modern physics. - ;This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in detail. A substAtomic structureHistoryPhysicistsAustriaBiographyAtomic structureHistory.Physicists530.092Cercignani Carlo17698MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792246103321Ludwig Boltzmann925550UNINA