Einstein's controversy with Drude and the origin of statistical mechanics: A new glimpse from the ``Love letters

DOI10.1007/BF00518232zbMath0892.01005OpenAlexW2109585018MaRDI QIDQ1377582

Jürgen Renn

Publication date: 16 February 1998

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00518232

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65)

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