A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

This article is intended for readers who, like us, were told that the second law of thermodynamics is one of the major achievements of the nineteenth cenwry—that it is a logical, perfect, and unbreakable law—but who were unsatisfied with the “derivations” of the entropy principle as found in textbooks and in popular writings.

• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Notices of the American Mathematical Society

• Publication date

  1998-05-06

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-10018-9_19arXiv math-ph/9805005
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