• DOI:10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199607617.013.26
Corpus ID: 52241194

Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics

@inproceedings{Myrvold2014ProbabilitiesIS,
  title={Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics},
  author={Wayne C. Myrvold},
  year={2014}
}

Wayne C. Myrvold

Published 2014

Mathematics

This chapter will review selected aspects of the terrain of discussions about probabilities in statistical mechanics (with no pretensions to exhaustiveness, though the major issues will be touched upon), and will argue for a number of claims. None of the claims to be defended is entirely original, but all deserve emphasis. The first, and least controversial, is that probabilistic notions are needed to make sense of statistical mechanics. The reason for this is the same reason that convinced… CONTINUE READING

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