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Subsection 3.1.5 Ludwig Boltzmann
Citizenship: π¦πΉ Austrian
Core Contributions:
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Before and After Boltzmann: From Mysterious Variable to Profound Understanding.
Before Boltzmann,
entropy \(S\) was an esoteric-like thermodynamic quantity. He was able to frame this headache of a physical quantity as a
combinatorial statement rooted in basic counting and leveraged the fact logarithms have the property that
\begin{equation*}
\log{\Omega_A \times \Omega_B} = \log\Omega_A + \log\Omega_B \, .
\end{equation*}