Description |
xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-251) and index. |
Contents |
A letter from Bombay ; Lessons in obscurity -- Invisible world ; The kind of motion we call heat -- Dr. Boltzmann of Vienna ; The precocious genius -- Irreversible changes ; The enigma of entropy -- "You will not fit in" ; The daunting Prussians -- The British engagement ; Parsons, lawyers, and physicists -- "It's easy to mistake a great stupidity for a great discovery" ; Philosophy seduces physics -- American innovations ; New world, new ideas |
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The shock of the new ; The arrival of the atomic century -- Beethoven in heaven ; Shadows of the mind -- Annus mirabilis, annus mortis ; Einstein rises, and a man falls. |
Subject |
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906.
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Physicists -- Austria -- Biography.
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Atomic theory -- History -- 19th century.
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ISBN |
0684851865 |
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9780684851860 |
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