Boltzmann's probability distribution of 1877

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Authors Alexander Bach

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein statisticsentropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

Review text

The author's main claim is that what we now call Bose-Einstein statistics actually had been introduced by Boltzmann in 1877 in the context of establishing the entropy-probability relationship. The evolution of Bose- Einstein statistics from Boltzman to Bose and Einstein is analyzed in order to prove the thesis.

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