Boltzmann's atom : the great debate that launched a revolution in physics / David Lindley.
Pubblicazione:
New York : The free press, c2001.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 260 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. A letter from Bombay: lessons in obscurity 2. Invisible world: the kind of motion we call heat 3. Dr. Boltzmann of Vienna: the precocious genius 4. Irreversible changes: the enigma of entropy 5. You will not fit in: the daunting Prussians 6. The British engagement: parsons, lawyers, and physicists 7. It's easy to mistake a great stupidity for a great discovery: philosophy seduces physics 8. American innovations: new world, new ideas 9. The shock of the new: the arrival of the atomic century 10. Beethoven in heaven: shadows of the mind 11. Annus mirabilis, annus mortis: Einstein rises, and a man falls. Poscript. Acknowledgements. Bibliography and notes. Index
