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Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society

Is our mathematics natural? The case of equilibrium statistical mechanics

David Ruelle

Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) Volume 19, Number 1 (1988), 259-268.

Primary Subjects: 00A25
Secondary Subjects: 82A05

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Zentralblatt MATH identifier: 0649.00028

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