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Boltzmann's legacy / Giovanni Gallavotti, Wolfgang L. Reiter, Jakob Yngvason, editors.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QC174.7 .I5662 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Symposium "Boltzmann's Legacy" (2006 : Vienna, Austria)
- Series:
- ESI lectures in mathematics and physics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906.
- Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906--Congresses.
- Boltzmann, Ludwig.
- Statistical physics--Congresses.
- Statistical physics.
- Statistical mechanics--Congresses.
- Statistical mechanics.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Kongress -- Wien -- 2006.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Zürich, Switzerland : European Mathematical Society, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Giovanni Gallavotti
- Boltzmann and the end of the mechanistic worldview / Jürgen Renn
- What if Boltzmann had known about quantum mechanics / Elliott H. Lieb
- Entropy, nonequilibrium, chaos and infinitesimals / Giovanni Gallavotti
- From time-symmetric microscopic dynamics to time-asymmetric macroscopic behavior: an overview / Joel L. Lebowitz
- What physical quantities make sense in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics? / David Ruelle
- Boltzmann, ergodic theory, and chaos / Donald S. Ornstein
- 134 years of Boltzmann equation / Carlo Cercignani
- H-theorem and beyond: Boltzmann's entropy in today's mathematics / Cédric Villani
- On the Boltzmann equation for weakly nonlinear wave equations / Herbert Spohn
- Entropy, probability and dynamics / E.G.D. Cohen
- Realizing Boltzmann's dream: computer simulations in modem statistical mechanics / Christoph Dellago and Harald A. Posch
- Statistical properties of the cluster dynamics of the systems of statistical mechanics / A. Gabrielov [and others]
- Boltzmann and evolution: some basic questions of biology seen with atomistic glasses / Peter Schuster
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- the restless prophet / Wolfgang L. Reiter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783037190579
- 3037190574
- OCLC:
- 301483778
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