Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7551912 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 2017 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
The celebrated Dreimännerarbeit by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan contains a matrix-mechanical derivation by Jordan of Einstein's formula for blackbody fluctuations. Jordan appears to have considered this to be one of his finest contributions to quantum theory, but the status of his derivation is puzzling. In our Dreimenschenarbeit, we show how to understand what Jordan was doing in the double context of a Boltzmannian approach to statistical mechanics and of the early 'statistical interpretation' of matrix mechanics.
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