2021
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Olivier Darrigol, « Boltzmann’s reply to the Loschmidt paradox: a commented translation », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00029-2
Boltzmann’s reply to Loschmidt’s reversibility paradox (1877) has baffled many readers, owing to imprecise language and unproven assumptions. Based on a new translation and detailed commentary, it will be shown that this text nevertheless contains the essentials of a correct, insightful interpretation of thermodynamic irreversibility in statistico-mechanical context.