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Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms
by Carlo Cercignani.
Oxford, 329 pp., £29.50, September 1998,0 19 850154 4 Show More
by Carlo Cercignani.
Oxford, 329 pp., £29.50, September 1998,
“... Empire, spent most of his career trying to define its meaning and clarify its basis. Now Carlo Cercignani, a mathematical physicist working in Milan, tries to explain the importance of Boltzmann’s search and to link it, somehow, to his extraordinary life. ‘The most important thing in a literary work is to give it the right ... ”
