Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa on why Boltzmannian and Gibbsian calculations agree

(2020) Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa on why Boltzmannian and Gibbsian calculations agree. In: The Legacy of Tatjana Afanassjewa:Philosophical Insights from the Work of an Original Physicist and Mathematician. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Cham, CH, 85 - 99. ISBN 9783030479701

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The relation between the Boltzmannian and the Gibbsian formulations of statistical mechanics is one of the major conceptual issues in the foundations of the discipline. In their celebrated review of statistical mechanics, Paul Ehrenfest and Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa discuss this issue and offer an argument for the conclusion that Boltzmannian equilibrium values agree with Gibbsian phase averages. In this paper, we analyse their argument, which is still important today, and point out that its scope is limited to dilute gases.

Item Type	Chapter
Departments	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-47971-8_4
Date Deposited	27 Jul 2022 18:03
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115685

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