Planck's Legacy to Statistical Mechanics

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2001-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101293v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, historical talk given at the Accademia dei Lincei at the conference on Max Planck

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In this talk I will describe the deep influence Planck had on the development of statistical mechanics. At this end I will first outline the theoretical situation of statistical mechanics before Planck. I will then describe his main contributions to this field and the progresses obtained as an immediate consequence of his work. I will also outline the later evolution of statistical mechanics in relation with Planck's work. I will finally report on a still unsolved problem in statistical mechanics, historically related to the properties of black-body radiation.

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