Constructivism and realism in Boltzmann's thermodynamics' atomism

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00372-2MaRDI QIDQ828361zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, Elaine Andrade, Paulo Picciani, Jean Faber

Publication date 8 January 2021

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-020-00372-2

zbMATH Keywords

atomismevolutionary epistemologyLudwig Boltzmannphysical entitiesrealismstatistical mechanicsthermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of statistical mechanics (82-03) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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