Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics

Klappentext A most systematic study of how to interpret probabilistic assertions in the context of statistical mechanics. Zusammenfassung This book provides a most systematic study of how to interpret probabilistic assertions in the context of statistical mechanics. It will be of particular interest to philosophers of science! physicists and mathematicians interested in foundational issues! and also to historians of science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Neo-Laplacian approach to statistical mechanics; 2. Subjectivism and the Ergodic approach; 3. The Haar measure; 4. Measure and topology in statistical mechanics; 5. Three solutions; Appendix I: mathematical preliminaries; Appendix II: on the foundations of probability; Appendix III: probability in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Y. M. Guttmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521042178
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04217-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Probabili; Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy: logic, Statistical physics, Probability and statistics