Giovanni Gallavotti

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Statistical Mechanics (eBook, PDF)

A Short Treatise

Beschreibung

This clear book presents a critical and modern analysis of the conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics as laid down in Boltzmann's works. The author emphasises the relation between microscopic reversibility and macroscopic irreversibility, explaining fundamental concepts in detail.

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Autor

Giovanni Gallavotti, emeritus, has been fellow at IHES (Paris, 1966-1968) with David Ruelle and post doc at Rockefeller University (New York, 1968-1970) with Mark Kac. He has been, since 1972, full professor in various universities (Napoli, Roma2 and Roma1). He has been long term visitor at IHES, IAS, Nijmegen, Princeton and Rutgers University. His primary research focused subsequently on theoretical and historical aspects of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Quantum field theory, Low temperature Fermi systems, Nonequilibrium and, currently, concentrates on mathematical problems on Fluid mechanics. Recipient of several awards and prizes (Presidente della Repubblica prize, Boltzmann medal, Henri Poincare' prize).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662039526
• Artikelnr.: 53098762

Rezensionen

From the reviews
"Gallavotti has written a somewhat ideological and quite personal book. Certainly one may disagree with him on some issues. But he has expert knowledge of what he discusses and also of many things he chooses not to discuss. And since he also knows the history of the subject, his opinion must be taken seriously. We may thus thank Gallavotti for giving us a fresh, authorative and readable introduction to a fundamental area of conceptual physics." (D. Ruelle, Physics Today, 2001)