Transcript (by @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world)
1.1 Introduction: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the Perfect Gas. Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
Oh man, now I want to read this textbook.
It’s not quite the same thing, but the other week I was complaining about good Vs bad maths textbooks and I said “I don’t want to learn maths from a textbook that doesn’t reference beauty at least once”