Assertion: statistical ensemble | /r/HasProperty | introduced into statistical mechanics
Facets:
value: especially
type: MANNER
value: by j. willard gibbs
type: OTHER
value: in 1902
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In mathematical physics, especially as introduced into statistical mechanics and thermodynamics by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902, an ensemble (also statistical ensemble) is an idealization consisting of a large number of virtual copies (sometimes infinitely many) of a system, considered all at once, each of which represents a possible state that the real system might be in.