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[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

David Goodstein, in the opening of his Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics textbook “States of Matter.”

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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