Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906: Book One: A Documentary History

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2 But already he had done important work on thermal equilibrium which helped generalize Maxwell's distribution law. Indeed, there is part of a letter by James Clerk Maxwell to Loschmidt from this period which runs: "I am very pleased over the outstanding work of your student; in England experi- mental physics is much neglected. Sir William Thomson has done the most in this connection, but you [in Austria] are ahead of us with your good example. "2...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792332318
• ISBN13: 9780792332312
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"