• DOI:10.1007/S004070050025
Corpus ID: 26481725

Gibbs, Einstein and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

@article{Navarro1998GibbsEA,
  title={Gibbs, Einstein and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics},
  author={L. Navarro},
  journal={Archive for History of Exact Sciences},
  year={1998},
  volume={53},
  pages={147-180}
}

• L. Navarro
• Published 1998
• Mathematics
• Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Abstract It is generally accepted that, around the turn of the century, GIBBS and EINSTEIN independently developed two equivalent formulations of statistical mechanics. GIBBS version is taken as genuine and rigorous, while EINSTEINs, despite some features which are characteristic of him, is usually considered a not totally satisfactory attempt.It will be shown in the present work that such a picture is oversimplified and requires further nuancing. In fact, there are significant differences… Expand

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