No creo que exista más 'motivación' a estudiar mecánica estadística que la historia de sus fundadores.
‘Statistical mechanics / thermodynamics, being what
many consider to be one of the most intellectually
difficult subjects of all, is noted for its prevalence of
suicides and suicide attempts by a large percentage of
its founders’
- Robert Mayer: 1850, jumped out of a 3rd‐floor window
- Ludwig Boltzmann: 1906, hanged himself
- Paul Ehrenfest: 1933, shot his daughter and himself
- William James: 1909, found dead: probable suicide
- Fritz Haber’s family: 1915, wife shot herself; 1947, both son and daughter shot themselves
- Gilbert Lewis: 1987 – took cyanide after not getting Nobel prize
- Percy Bridgman: 1961 – shot himself
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