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especially on allegedly Darwinian grounds but actually in terms of Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics that people inherited bad philosophy from the past and that it was hard for scientists to overcome such inheritance.
is out of place and a point of view: Darwin actually wrote books about the evolution of culture and of human knowledge while Lamarck not. If the author of the paragraph have difficulties in find similarity between Darwin and Boltzmann it is his problem. 94.161.63.230 ( talk) 17:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
How did he commit suicide? I heard that he killed himself with a gun. Is this true? 131.215.134.167 00:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
What year did he commit suicide?
I think the Boltzmann Equation section of the article is too heavy on the specifics of that equation, and too light on his biographical information. I think the equations should go into the relevent scientific articles, where they would feel more at home. In the Boltzmann article should be information about his life, family, schooling, etc. Ed Sanville 21:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Peronally, I think that putting the suicide front and center is a rather bad idea. Especially for scientist biographies, I would think that one would talk about his works before going into the morbid details... John Sheu 07:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
When I took physical chemistry the professor teaching the class said that Boltzmann had killed himself because his (European) peers severely rejected his thermodynamic ideas, but it was unknown to him that in the USA he was getting serious consideration of his ideas.
There seems to be a marketing interest to rewrite biographies of famous brillant people by giving them mental health labels. This is done to make the public more accepting of the expansion of mental health services, labels on people, and psych related drugs for marketing reasons. They do not want to validate to the victim of cruel treatment that people acting in groups can be cruel, so the psychologists try to appease the victim to accept the label by saying, look at Boltzmann or so and so, they were brillant, your in good company!
Much of the physics establishment rejected his thesis about the reality of atoms and molecules — a belief shared, however, by Maxwell in Scotland...
Footnote 4 in the text should be about the H-theorem, but instead it links to [3] in the footnotes, which is about Claude Shannon. There is also a footnote 3 in the text that appropriately links to [3]. The actual citation [4] in the footnotes appears to have no relevance. Also, footnote 6 does not seem to appear anywhere in the text.
Chymicus
00:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
The box on the left-hand side of the article page has a caption for "notable students" of Boltzmann's...There are three listed - but Lise Meitner is left out. She is rather more famous than the other three - should she not be listed as well? Engr105th 07:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
The sentence: "laly was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in Bavaria, Germany in 1890." doesn't look right to me. Maybe someone can see how to successflly improve it. AussieOzborn 07:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
"We must consider 'probability' as relative (a posteriori) frequency of occurrence...", Wolfgang Pauli, Statistical Mechanics (Vol. 4 Pauli Lectures on Physics), p. 21 -- Jbergquist 03:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Boltzmann's statement concerning entropy was, "But the quantity is in our case, where the ratio of specific heats is 1 2/3, in fact the total entropy of all the gases." R was earlier defined by , relating the mean square velocity of a gas molecule to the temperature, and "M is the mass of a hydrogen molecule." -Boltzmann, Ludwig (1995). Lectures on Gas Theory. Dover. ISBN 0-486-68455-5., p. 74
A footnote on p. 65 of the same work concerning the most probable velocity of a molecule states "the subscript w stands for wahrscheinlichste, 'most probable.'" Frequency and probability seem to be confused here also. Expectation may be closer than probability as a translation for wahrscheinlichkeit. -- Jbergquist 18:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm thinking that the influence of Boltzmann's definition of entropy on Information Theory is important enough to mention in his biography. Comments? ThreePD ( talk) 14:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I may be wrong but is it not true that he commited suicide because the physics community of the time would not believe the entropy equation and therefore this led to his death and the reason the equation is on his tombstone as a final act of stubboness?
I have reverted this edit several times already, so I post a short explanation here (based on Longman's dictionary):
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Somebody messed with his glasses, his eyes are way too large! A pic search confirms it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.76.205.170 ( talk) 13:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
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The following passage:
especially on allegedly Darwinian grounds but actually in terms of Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics that people inherited bad philosophy from the past and that it was hard for scientists to overcome such inheritance.
is out of place and a point of view: Darwin actually wrote books about the evolution of culture and of human knowledge while Lamarck not. If the author of the paragraph have difficulties in find similarity between Darwin and Boltzmann it is his problem. 94.161.63.230 ( talk) 17:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
How did he commit suicide? I heard that he killed himself with a gun. Is this true? 131.215.134.167 00:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
What year did he commit suicide?
I think the Boltzmann Equation section of the article is too heavy on the specifics of that equation, and too light on his biographical information. I think the equations should go into the relevent scientific articles, where they would feel more at home. In the Boltzmann article should be information about his life, family, schooling, etc. Ed Sanville 21:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Peronally, I think that putting the suicide front and center is a rather bad idea. Especially for scientist biographies, I would think that one would talk about his works before going into the morbid details... John Sheu 07:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
When I took physical chemistry the professor teaching the class said that Boltzmann had killed himself because his (European) peers severely rejected his thermodynamic ideas, but it was unknown to him that in the USA he was getting serious consideration of his ideas.
There seems to be a marketing interest to rewrite biographies of famous brillant people by giving them mental health labels. This is done to make the public more accepting of the expansion of mental health services, labels on people, and psych related drugs for marketing reasons. They do not want to validate to the victim of cruel treatment that people acting in groups can be cruel, so the psychologists try to appease the victim to accept the label by saying, look at Boltzmann or so and so, they were brillant, your in good company!
Much of the physics establishment rejected his thesis about the reality of atoms and molecules — a belief shared, however, by Maxwell in Scotland...
Footnote 4 in the text should be about the H-theorem, but instead it links to [3] in the footnotes, which is about Claude Shannon. There is also a footnote 3 in the text that appropriately links to [3]. The actual citation [4] in the footnotes appears to have no relevance. Also, footnote 6 does not seem to appear anywhere in the text.
Chymicus
00:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
The box on the left-hand side of the article page has a caption for "notable students" of Boltzmann's...There are three listed - but Lise Meitner is left out. She is rather more famous than the other three - should she not be listed as well? Engr105th 07:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
The sentence: "laly was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in Bavaria, Germany in 1890." doesn't look right to me. Maybe someone can see how to successflly improve it. AussieOzborn 07:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
"We must consider 'probability' as relative (a posteriori) frequency of occurrence...", Wolfgang Pauli, Statistical Mechanics (Vol. 4 Pauli Lectures on Physics), p. 21 -- Jbergquist 03:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Boltzmann's statement concerning entropy was, "But the quantity is in our case, where the ratio of specific heats is 1 2/3, in fact the total entropy of all the gases." R was earlier defined by , relating the mean square velocity of a gas molecule to the temperature, and "M is the mass of a hydrogen molecule." -Boltzmann, Ludwig (1995). Lectures on Gas Theory. Dover. ISBN 0-486-68455-5., p. 74
A footnote on p. 65 of the same work concerning the most probable velocity of a molecule states "the subscript w stands for wahrscheinlichste, 'most probable.'" Frequency and probability seem to be confused here also. Expectation may be closer than probability as a translation for wahrscheinlichkeit. -- Jbergquist 18:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm thinking that the influence of Boltzmann's definition of entropy on Information Theory is important enough to mention in his biography. Comments? ThreePD ( talk) 14:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I may be wrong but is it not true that he commited suicide because the physics community of the time would not believe the entropy equation and therefore this led to his death and the reason the equation is on his tombstone as a final act of stubboness?
I have reverted this edit several times already, so I post a short explanation here (based on Longman's dictionary):
Sasha ( talk) 04:49, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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Somebody messed with his glasses, his eyes are way too large! A pic search confirms it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.76.205.170 ( talk) 13:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)