Anyone heard of a book titled S=k ln W ?

[arwright3]

Anyone heard of a book titled "S=k ln W"?

Hi,

An old prof. of mine suggested an SM book he read in grad school that was titled "S=k ln W". He didn't remember the author, but said it was pretty short (~100 pages) and was a really good read for a grad class in SM. I've been trying to find this book, but no luck so far, I can't even find any mention of it online. Anyone heard of this book or possibly know who the author is?

-Adam

P.S. He is german, so there is a chance that this book might have been in german and could have been published under another name in english.

 

[n10Newton]

What do you mean by SM, Statistical Mechanics.

 

[Rooted]

Other than the equation being the work of Ludwig Boltzmann, and him being a bit of a big cheese in the field of statistical mechanics I can't help. I've done a quick google and I can't find a list of Boltzmann's publications, but maybe this was something of his?

 

[dcassell]

The only book I can think of with that on the cover is https://www.amazon.com/dp/9812832254/?tag=pfamazon01-20. But it is 250 pages. The author's larger book A Farewell To Entropy is better than the shorter version above. Also he isn't German... so this is probably a different book.