Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics A brilliant theoretician

A brilliant theoretician

placing events in their historical context

and his rediscovery of Mendel's work forms the foundation of today's field of genetics

transported

Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics A brilliant theoreticianWritten by J. Willard Gibbs, the most distinguished American mathematical physicist of the nineteenth century, this book was the first to bring together and arrange in logical order the works of Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs himself. The lucid, advanced level text remains a valuable collection of fundamental equations and principles. Topics include the general problem and the fundamental equation of statistical mechanics, the canonical