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IN the discussion which followed the communication of my Report on Thermodynamics to the British Association at Oxford this year, Prof. Boltzmann made some remarks which appear to have been interpreted in a different light to what he doubtless intended. In the absence of any shorthand writer's verbatim report of the discussion, it is of course impossible to recall his exact words, but I feel sure that Prof. Boltzmann will be much astonished to learn that his statements are now widely circulated and quoted as being an authoritative admission that the Kinetic Theory of Gases is nothing more than a purely mathematical investigation, the results of which are not in accord with physical phenomena; in short, a mere useless mathematical plaything.
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BRYAN, G. Prof. Boltzmann and the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Nature 51, 31 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051031a0
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