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Ludwig Boltzmann - The Man Who Trusted Atoms (Paperback, New ed)
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Ludwig Boltzmann - The Man Who Trusted Atoms (Paperback, New ed)
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This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and
philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists
who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich
and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described
in detail. A substantial part of the book is devoted to discussing
his scientific and philosophical ideas and placing them in the
context of the second half of the 19th century. The fact that
Boltzmann was the man who did most to establish that there is a
microscopic, atomic structure underlying macroscopic bodies is
documented, as is Boltzmann's influence on modern physics,
especially through the work of Planck on light quanta and of
Einstein on Brownian motion. Boltzmann was the centre of a
scientific upheaval, and he has been proved right on many crucial
issues. He anticipated Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and
proposed a theory of knowledge based on Darwin. His basic results,
when properly understood, can also be stated as mathematical
theorems. Some of these have been proved: others are still at the
level of likely but unproven conjectures. The main text of this
biography is written almost entirely without equations.
Mathematical appendices deepen knowledge of some technical aspects
of the subject.
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