Ford, David; Huntsman, Steven - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 365 (2006) 1, pp. 34-41
Thermodynamics (in concert with its sister discipline, statistical physics) can be regarded as a data reduction scheme … conventionally, the systems investigated require this form of data reduction in order to facilitate prediction, a different problem … responsible for the interactions) but rather, description as a route to understanding. Still, the need for a thermodynamical data …