Atoms, entropy, quanta: Einstein's miraculous argument of 1905

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.07.003zbMath1222.81018OpenAlexW1994028194MaRDI QIDQ640255

John D. Norton

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/12560/1/JDN2006_2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

entropyEinsteinatomsquanta

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03)

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Einstein's approach to statistical mechanics: the 1902--04 papers ⋮ What Price Statistical Independence? How Einstein Missed the Photon ⋮ Insuperable difficulties: Einstein's statistical road to molecular physics ⋮ Pascual Jordan's resolution of the conundrum of the wave-particle duality of light ⋮ A note on the prehistory of indistinguishable particles ⋮ Brownian computation is thermodynamically irreversible

Cites Work

• Eaters of the lotus: Landauer's principle and the return of Maxwell's demon
• Insuperable difficulties: Einstein's statistical road to molecular physics
• Einstein: the formative years, 1879--1909
• Reappraising Einstein s 1905 application of thermodynamics and statistics to radiation
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