Einstein's controversy with Drude and the origin of statistical mechanics : a new glimpse from the love letters / Jürgen Renn.
Abstract:
'In this paper I argue that statistical mechanics, at least in the version published by Einstein in 1902, was the result of a reinterpretation of already existing results by Boltzmann.'
Archive for history of exact sciences Vol. 51 (1997), p. 315-354