The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Ludwig Boltzmann, covering his 1871 derivation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and his statistical mechanics, developed independently of Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boltzmann/
Source Typeacademic biography
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A specialist academic history reference maintained by the University of St Andrews, with named editorial contributors and continuous review, tier 2 throughout this atlas for historical-figure biographies. Sources
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