Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

This book is a thorough study of a great perennial monument in the history of physics: Ludwig Boltzmann’s oeuvre in early statistical mechanics. It offers introductory historical and biographical materials, detailed summaries and analyses of all the relevant texts, and a final chapter of critical synthesis. It is designed to reveal Boltzmann’s true endeavors and to give new life to his various theoretical constructions.