Ludwig Boltzmann — Order, Chaos, and a Tiny Number
Ludwig Boltzmann wanted to know what entropy meant under the skin. Clausius had named it and measured it; Boltzmann tried to see its atoms. He imagined the invisible ballet of mole…
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Rudolf Clausius — The Law That Wouldn’t Blink
There is a kind of courage that does not shout. Rudolf Clausius had that quiet courage when he wrote a sentence that changed the way we think about the world: heat cannot of itself…
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