Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (Duitse fonetiese uitspraak: |ˈluːtvɪç ˈbɔlt͡sman; 20 Februarie1844 – 5 September1906) was 'n Oostenryksefisikus en filosoof. Sy grootste prestasie was die ontwikkeling van statistiese meganika, wat 'n verduideliking bied van, en voorspel hoe, die eienskappe van atome (soos bv. atoommassa, elektriese lading en struktuur) die fisiese eienskappe van materie bepaal (soos bv. die viskositeit, termiese geleidingsvermoë en diffusie of verspreiding daarvan). Boltzmann het die woord ergodisiteit uitgedink terwyl hy besig was om aan 'n probleem in statistiese meganika te werk.
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Roman Sexl & John Blackmore (eds.), "Ludwig Boltzmann – Ausgewahlte Abhandlungen", (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesamtausgabe, Band 8), Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1982.
John Blackmore (red.), "Ludwig Boltzmann – His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906, Book One: A Documentary History", Kluwer, 1995. ISBN 978-0-7923-3231-2
John Blackmore, "Ludwig Boltzmann – His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906, Book Two: The Philosopher", Kluwer, Dordrecht, Nederland 1995. ISBN 978-0-7923-3464-4
John Blackmore (red.), "Ludwig Boltzmann – Troubled Genius as Philosopher", in Synthese, Volume 119, Nos. 1 & 2, 1999, pp. 1–232.
Boltzmann, Ludwig Boltzmann – Leben und Briefe, red., Walter Hoeflechner, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. Graz, Oesterreich, 1994
Brush, Stephen G. (red. & vertaler), Boltzmann, Lectures on Gas Theory, Berkeley, Kalifornië: U. of California Press, 1964
Brush, Stephen G. (red.), Kinetic Theory, New York: Pergamon Press, 1965
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Brush, Stephen G. (1986). The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN978-0-7204-0370-1.
Paul Ehrenfest & Ehrenfest, T. (1911) "Begriffliche Grundlagen der statistischen Auffassung in der Mechanik", in Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluß ihrer Anwendungen Band IV, 2. Teil ( F. Klein and C. Müller (reds.). Leipzig: Teubner, pp. 3–90. Vertaal as The Conceptual Foundations of the Statistical Approach in Mechanics. New York: Cornell University Press, 1959. ISBN 0-486-49504-3
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Everdell, William R (1997). The First Moderns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, developed with especial reference to the rational foundation of thermodynamics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Johnson, Eric (2018). Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy. The MIT Press. ISBN978-0-262-03861-4.
Klein, Martin J. (1973). "The Development of Boltzmann's Statistical Ideas". In E.G.D. Cohen; W. Thirring (reds.). The Boltzmann Equation: Theory and Applications. Acta physica Austriaca Suppl. 10. Wien: Springer. pp. 53–106. ISBN978-0-387-81137-6.