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physics.hist-ph1998
History and outlook of statistical physics
D. Flamm
This paper gives a short review of the history of statistical physics starting from D. Bernoulli's kinetic theory of gases in the 18th century until the recent new developments in…
physics.hist-ph1997
Ludwig Boltzmann -- A Pioneer of Modern Physics
D. Flamm
In two respects Ludwig Boltzmann was a pioneer of quantum mechanics. First because in his statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics he introduced the theory of…