Studien Uber Das Gleichgewicht Der Lebendigen Kraft Zwischen Bewegten Materiellen Punkten

by Ludwig Boltzmann

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Wien: K.K. Hof und Staatsdruckerei, 1868 . First edition, extremely rare offprint, of one of Boltzmann’s most important papers, in which he derives the ‘Boltzmann distribution,’ and formulates it as a probability distribution defined over phase space, instead of the space of molecular velocities – “This is the first occasion where probability considerations are applied to the state of the mechanical system as

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