Jordan's derivation of blackbody fluctuations |
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| Institution: | 1. Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;2. IHPST and SPHERE, Paris, France;3. Department of Philosophy, The City College of New York, CUNY, USA;4. Department of Philosophy, Oxford University, UK;1. Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India;2. Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India;3. Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731235, India |
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| Abstract: | The celebrated Dreimännerarbeit by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan contains a matrix-mechanical derivation by Jordan of Einstein's formula for blackbody fluctuations. Jordan appears to have considered this to be one of his finest contributions to quantum theory, but the status of his derivation is puzzling. In our Dreimenschenarbeit, we show how to understand what Jordan was doing in the double context of a Boltzmannian approach to statistical mechanics and of the early ‘statistical interpretation’ of matrix mechanics. |
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