Assertion: statistical ensemble | /r/HasProperty | idealization
Facets:
value: in mathematical physics
type: OTHER
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.