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Fluktuujący świat Mariana Smoluchowskiego
Fluctuating world of Marian Smoluchowski

Author(s): Andrzej Fuliński
Subject(s): Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Copernicus Center Press
Keywords: history of science; atomic theory; fluctuations; Brownian motion; stochastic process; non-markovian process; Marian Smoluchowski

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to present the Marian Smoluchowski’s work on thermal and primordial fluctuations which are the main cause of Brownian motion and one of the first empirical evidences for molecular structure of matter.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 127-138
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish