Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann's grave, with S= k log W seen at the top.

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906)

Publications list

Papers:

• Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann "Ableitung des Stefanschen Gesetzes, betreffend die Abhängigkeit der Wärmestrahlung von der Temperatur aus der elektromagnetischen Lichttheorie" Wiedemann’s Annalen 22 pp. 291-294 (1884)
• Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann "On the relation between the second law of the mechanical theory of heat and the probability calculus with respect to the theorems on thermal equilibrium", Sitzungberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften - Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 76 pp. 373-435 (1877) (English translation thanks to Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky in Entropy 17 pp. 1971-2009 (2015))

Lectures:

• "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" Populäre Schriften, Essay 3. Address to a formal meeting of the Imperial Academy of Science (29 May 1886)

Books:

• "Lectures on Gas Theory" (original title "Vorlesungen uber Gastheorie") (1896) ISBN 0486684555
• "Populäre Schriften" Johann Ambrosius Barth (1905)

See also

• Boltzmann constant
• Boltzmann distribution
• Boltzmann equation
• Boltzmann factor
• Boltzmann average
• H-theorem

Interesting reading

• Joel L. Lebowitz "Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow", Physics Today 46 pp. 32-38 (1993)
• Huw Price "Boltzmann's Time Bomb", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 pp. 83-119 (2002)
• Sheldon Goldstein "Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics", Lecture Notes in Physics 574 pp. 39-54 (2001)

Biographies:

• Engelbert Broda (English translation with Larry Gay) "Ludwig Boltzmann - Man, Physicist, Philosopher" Ox Bow Press (1983) ISBN 0918024242
• Carlo Cercignani "Ludwig Boltzmann The Man Who Trusted Atoms", Oxford University Press (1998) ISBN 978-0-19-850154-1