Article ID: CBB000079799

Essay on Quételet and Maxwell: From la physique sociale to statistical physics (1997)

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Description On the influence of Quételet's social physics on Maxwell's statistical mechanics.


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Authors & Contributors
Donnelly, Kevin Padraic
Porter, Theodore M.
Kolb, Margaret
Van Sinderen, Alfred W.
Turner, Stephen Park
Stone, Mervyn
Concepts
Social sciences
Probability and statistics
Statistics
Medical statistics
Science and government
Physics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
Belgium
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
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