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Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.
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Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion of time asymmetry in the entropic asymmetry of systems in time. The book emphasises the interaction of scientific and philosophical modes of reasoning, and in this way will interest all philosophers of science as well as those in physics and chemistry concerned with philosophical questions. The book could also be read by an informed general reader interested in the foundations of modern science.
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Physics and Chance : Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
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Cambridge University Press 1993, Cambridge, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0521440556
ISBN 13 : 9780521440554
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Couverture rigide
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Vendeur : Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. xiii, 437 pp. Black hardcover in purple dustjacket. Dome markings to boards and bending to dustjacket. A couple of pencil markings, but overall clean and bright internally. From the Library of a Theoretical Physicist, Prof. Peter Landsberg, with what look to be his notes for a review. 0521440556 Large 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 65503
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Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Edité par
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993., 1993
ISBN 10 : 0521440556
ISBN 13 : 9780521440554
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Edition originale
Vendeur : Free Play Books, NEW HAVEN, CT, Etats-Unis
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8vo. xiii, 437 pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at spine. Minor edge-wear and rubbing. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. In mylar sleeve. N° de réf. du vendeur 2723
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