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 James Clerk Maxwell)
• Stefan-Boltzmann Constant (with Josef Stefan)
• Stefan-Boltzmann Law (with Josef Stefan)
• Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics (with James Clerk Maxwell)
• Boltzmann-Matano Analysis (with Chujiro Matano)

Results named for Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann can be found here.

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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive