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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 12 1. Boltzmann Kills Himself 14 2. Boltzmann Is Buried (Not Once, But Twice) 16 3. Start Simple 20 4. Before Things Got Weird 24 5. Postmortem Psychiatry 26 6. But How Crazy? 32 7. Not Quite Big Numbers 40 8. Big Enough Numbers 46 9. And Everything In Between 52 10. A Case for Anxiety 60 11. One of the Many Benefits of Modernity 64 12. And Yet It Moves 68 13. Follow the Leader 76 14. The Night Before 84 15. The Next Day 86 16. One’s Harshest Critic 90 17. Something Like a Mathematical Supplement 96 18. You May Now Return to Your Seats 100 19. Boltzmann’s Constant 106 20. Human Factors 118 21. In Search of a Better Analogy 134 22. Equilibrium You Can Count On 146 23. A Rigorous Examination of the Obvious 160 24. The Farewell Tour 172 25. An Alternative Ending 182 Notes 184 Index 190 Publisher:The MIT Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9780262348539,Related ISBN:9780262038614,Language:English,OCLC:1055948519 A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.Ludwig Bolt

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Author

Boltzmann, Ludwig;Johnson, Eric

Publisher

MIT PRESS; The MIT Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262348546

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Physics