Fluctuating world of Marian Smoluchowski

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Published: 2017-06-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.62.393
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atomic theory, fluctuations, Brownian motion, stochastic process, non-markovian process, Marian Smoluchowski

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Andrzej Fuliński
Jagiellonian University

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The main goal of this paper is to present the Marian Smoluchowski’s work on thermal and primordial fluctuations which are the main cause of Brownian motion and one of the first empirical evidences for molecular structure of matter.

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No. 62 (2017): Special issue: Marian Smoluchowski's philosophy of physics - a centenary commemoration

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Fuliński, Andrzej. 2017. “Fluctuating World of Marian Smoluchowski”. Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce), no. 62 (June): 127-38. https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.62.393.