FM 97-2

Author: G. Gallavotti

Title: Atomism, Boltzmann and nonequilibrium statistical
mechanics

Text of a talk presented at the Symposium "The genesis
and development of ethernal thruths", ETH
(Wissenschaftphilosophie und Wissenschaftforschung
departement f\"ur Humanwissenschaften), Z\"urich, 4 nov
1996.

Keywords: Nonequilibrium, Statistical Mechanics,
Entropy, Chaos, Science history

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