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The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions
This article is a detailed history of the Gibbs paradox, with philosophical morals. It purports to explain the origins of the paradox, to describe and criticize solutions of the paradox from the early times to the present, to use the history of statistical mechanics as a reservoir of ideas for clari...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060443 |
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| author | Darrigol, Olivier |
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| description | This article is a detailed history of the Gibbs paradox, with philosophical morals. It purports to explain the origins of the paradox, to describe and criticize solutions of the paradox from the early times to the present, to use the history of statistical mechanics as a reservoir of ideas for clarifying foundations and removing prejudices, and to relate the paradox to broad misunderstandings of the nature of physical theory. |
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| spelling | pubmed-78457722021-02-24 The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions Darrigol, Olivier Entropy (Basel) Article This article is a detailed history of the Gibbs paradox, with philosophical morals. It purports to explain the origins of the paradox, to describe and criticize solutions of the paradox from the early times to the present, to use the history of statistical mechanics as a reservoir of ideas for clarifying foundations and removing prejudices, and to relate the paradox to broad misunderstandings of the nature of physical theory. MDPI 2018-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7845772/ /pubmed/33265533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060443 Text en © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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| title | The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions |
| title_full | The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions |
| title_short | The Gibbs Paradox: Early History and Solutions |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060443 |
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