Mathematician:Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

Mathematician
Austrian physicist and philosopher.

Best known for his work on the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics.

Nationality
Austrian

History

 * Born: 20 February 1844 in Vienna, Austrian Empire
 * Died: 5 September 1906 in Tybein, Triest, Austria-Hungary (now Trieste in Italy)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Boltzmann's Entropy Formula


 * Boltzmann Brain
 * Boltzmann's Constant
 * Boltzmann Equation
 * Boltzmann Distribution
 * Boltzmann Factor
 * Boltzmann Relation


 * Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution (with )
 * Stefan-Boltzmann Constant (with )
 * Stefan-Boltzmann Law (with )
 * Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics (with )
 * Boltzmann-Matano Analysis (with )

Publications

 * 1893: Verhältniss zur Fernwirkungstheorie, Specielle Fälle der Elektrostatik, stationären Strömung und Induction
 * 1896: Theorie van der Waals, Gase mit zusammengesetzten Molekülen, Gasdissociation, Schlussbemerkungen
 * 1896: Theorie der Gase mit einatomigen Molekülen, deren Dimensionen gegen die mittlere Weglänge verschwinden
 * 1908: Abteilung der Grundgleichungen für ruhende, homogene, isotrope Körper
 * 1922: Vorlesungen über Gastheorie