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1. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms by Carlo Cercignani | |
Paperback: 348
Pages
(2006-03-09)
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poorly written
Great for Physical Chemists
A Life in a Time Just Before Great Changes
A stimulating biography of a great scientist |
2. Lectures on Gas Theory by Ludwig Boltzmann | |
Paperback: 512
Pages
(2011-01-20)
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Magnificent work by grand master! |
3. Boltzmanns Atom: The Great Debate That Launched A Revolution In Physics by David Lindley | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2001-01-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before this explosive growth into the modern age took place, an all-but-forgotten genius strove for forty years to win acceptance for the atomic theory of matter and an altogether new way of doing physics. Ludwig Boltz-mann battled with philosophers, the scientific establishment, and his own potent demons. His victory led the way to the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century. Now acclaimed science writer David Lindley portrays the dramatic story of Boltzmann and his embrace of the atom, while providing a window on the civilized world that gave birth to our scientific era. Boltzmann emerges as an endearingly quixotic character, passionately inspired by Beethoven, who muddled through the practical matters of life in a European gilded age. Boltzmann's story reaches from fin de siècle Vienna, across Germany and Britain, to America. As the Habsburg Empire was crumbling, Germany's intellectual might was growing; Edinburgh in Scotland was one of the most intellectually fertile places on earth; and, in America, brilliant independent minds were beginning to draw on the best ideas of the bureaucratized old world. Boltzmann's nemesis in the field of theoretical physics at home in Austria was Ernst Mach, noted today in the term Mach I, the speed of sound. Mach believed physics should address only that which could be directly observed. How could we know that frisky atoms jiggling about corresponded to heat if we couldn't see them? Why should we bother with theories that only told us what would probably happen, rather than making an absolute prediction? Mach and Boltzmann both believed in the power of science, but their approaches to physics could not have been more opposed. Boltzmann sought to explain the real world, and cast aside any philosophical criteria. Mach, along with many nineteenth-century scientists, wanted to construct an empirical edifice of absolute truths that obeyed strict philosophical rules. Boltzmann did not get on well with authority in any form, and he did his best work at arm's length from it. When at the end of his career he engaged with the philosophical authorities in the Viennese academy, the results were personally disastrous and tragic. Yet Boltzmann's enduring legacy lives on in the new physics and technology of our wired world. Lindley's elegant telling of this tale combines the detailed breadth of the best history, the beauty of theoretical physics, and the psychological insight belonging to the finest of novels. Opposed by the then-influential physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, whourged that scientists stick to classical thermodynamics, Boltzmann was hard-pressed to convince his colleagues that the behavior of atoms could be explained by laws thought to apply only to the gaming table. Mach objected, and with some cause, that "the fact that the theory worked was not enough to prove that the assumptions on which the theory rested were true." It would take the next generation of scientists, among them Albert Einstein, to provide more solid proof for Boltzmann's hunches. And, while Mach's contributions to physics have largely been superseded, Boltzmann's endure in quantum mechanics and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the velocities of atoms in a gas. In this lively account, David Lindley tells the story of Boltzmann's many failures, and of his eventual success. --Gregory McNamee Customer Reviews (15)
S = k log W
Difficult man, difficult ideas
The harrowing fight for Boltzmann's atom
good introduction
scientists are people, too |
4. Ludwig Boltzmann e la meccanica statistica (Percorsi della fisica) (Italian Edition) by Carlo Cercignani | |
Paperback: 266
Pages
(1997)
Isbn: 8878302635 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen von Ludwig Boltzmann: Im Auftr. u. mit Unterst. d. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin, Göttingen ... hrsg (German Edition) by Ludwig Boltzmann | |
Paperback: 672
Pages
(1909-01-01)
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6. Vertriebene Vernunft (Veroffentlichungen des Ludwig Boltzmann-Institutes fur Geschichte der Gesellschaftswissenschaften. Sonderband) (German Edition) by Friedrich (Hrsg) Stadler | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1987)
Isbn: 3224165286 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Auf dem Weg zum "neuen Menschen": Bildungs- und Kulturarbeit der osterreichischen Sozialdemokratie in der Ersten Republik (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann ... der Arbeiterbewegung) (German Edition) by Josef Weidenholzer | |
Perfect Paperback: 301
Pages
(1981)
Isbn: 3203507919 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. Ludwig Boltzmann Gesamtausgabe: Band 2 Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie der Elektricität und des Lichtes (German Edition) | |
Hardcover: 274
Pages
(2001-01-25)
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9. Der Boxeraufstand: Entlarvter Mythos (Berichte des Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes fur China- und Sudostasienforschung) (German Edition) by Gerd Kaminski | |
Mass Market Paperback: 248
Pages
(2000)
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10. Die Linke im Standestaat Osterreich: Revolutionare Sozialisten u. Kommunisten, 1934-1938 (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann Instituts fur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung ; Bd. 8) (German Edition) by Franz West | |
Paperback: 351
Pages
(1978)
Isbn: 3203506688 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. General Luo genannt Langnase: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Dr. med. Jakob Rosenfeld (Berichte des Ludwig-Boltzmann-Instituts fur China- und Sudostasienforschung) (German Edition) by Gerd Kaminski | |
Hardcover: 231
Pages
(1993)
Isbn: 3854092261 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. Das Entstehen der Arbeiterklasse in Oberosterreich (Veroffentlichung des Ludwig Boltzmann Instituts fur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung) (German Edition) by Helmut Konrad | |
Hardcover: 519
Pages
(1981)
Isbn: 3203507757 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. Freud und Wagner-Jauregg vor der Kommission zur Erhebung militarischer Pflichtverletzungen (Veroffentlichung des Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institutes fur Geschichte ... (German Edition) by K. R Eissler | |
Hardcover: 333
Pages
(1979)
Isbn: 3854090056 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. Widerstand an Donau und Moldau: KPO u. KSC zur Zeit des Hitler-Stalin-Paktes (Veroffentlichung des Ludwig Boltzmann Instituts fur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung) (German Edition) by Helmut Konrad | |
Hardcover: 351
Pages
(1978)
Isbn: 3203506823 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. Abfertigungsregelungen im Spannungsfeld der Wirtschaftspolitik: Eine interdisziplinare Analyse (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann-Instituts fur Okonomische ... Aktivitaten) (German Edition) | |
Perfect Paperback: 271
Pages
(1987)
Isbn: 321406990X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Reformvorschlage fur ein ADV-Handelsregister (Veroffentlichungen des Ludwig Boltzmann-Institutes fur Rechtsvorsorge und Urkundenwesen) (German Edition) by Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut fur Rechtsvorsorge und Urkundenwesen | |
Perfect Paperback: 148
Pages
(1990)
Isbn: 3214069594 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. Gesellschaft und Kultur bei Hobbes und Freud: [das gemeinsame Paradigma der Sozialitat] (Veroffentlichungen des Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institutes fur Geschichte ... (German Edition) by Elmar Waibl | |
Perfect Paperback: 108
Pages
(1980)
Isbn: 3854090188 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. Bevolkerung und Sozialstaat (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann-Instituts fur Okonomische Analysen Wirtschaftspolitischer Aktivitaten) (German Edition) by Peter Findl | |
Perfect Paperback: 137
Pages
(1987)
Isbn: 3214069918 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. Politik und Wirtschaft in den neunziger Jahren: Empirische Untersuchungen zur neuen politischen Okonomie (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig-Boltzmann-Instituts ... Aktivitaten) (German Edition) | |
Perfect Paperback: 182
Pages
(1996)
Isbn: 3214070053 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Von Osterreichern und Chinesen (Berichte des Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes fur China- und Sudostasienforschung) (German Edition) by Gerd Kaminski | |
Hardcover: 1084
Pages
(1980)
Isbn: 3203507447 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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