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In the last twenty years, modern mathematical methods, previously employed successfully in other branches of physics, began to be used in the field of thermodynamics.
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Badescu, V. (2016). Thermodynamics as a Contact Geometry Structure. In: Modeling Thermodynamic Distance, Curvature and Fluctuations. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33789-0_6
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