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I'm interested in a serious discussion (at the level of Arnold's mechanics text) about the alleged connection between Boltzmann's H theorem and Poincaré's theorem (rumor has it Boltzmann was pretty upset with Poincaré's result).

Could anybody help me ?
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See chapter 6: Boltzmann’s H-Theorem

http://www-proxy.che.ksu.edu/~bgkyle/

and "Boltzmann's H-theorem, its limitations, and the birth of (fully) statistical mechanics"

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1304