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In this chapter Clausius’ 1865 macroscopic, thermodynamic definition of entropy is united with Boltzmann’s 1877 atomistic, probabilistic definition of entropy.
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Sharp, K. (2019). What Is Entropy?. In: Entropy and the Tao of Counting. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35457-2_2
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