The road to Maxwell's demon
By: Meir Hemmo, Orly Shenker,
Contributors: Shenker, Orly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107019638
Subjects: Maxwell's demon; Statistical thermodynamics; Second law of thermodynamics
Description: "Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the nineteenth century and certainly not before the end of the seventeenth century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.