queries

Matt Cramer cramer at unix01.voicenet.com
Mon Mar 12 18:40:15 PST 2001


On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:

[phase space...]


> Didn't their usage become industrialized by Willard Gibbs [or did he get it from
> CS Pierce's dad?] or are they much older than that?

Yep, it is Gibbs. Lanczos attributes it to him in _The Variational Principles of Mechanics_. Also IIRC my alma mater's science library had a collection of Gibb's works from ~1900 where he used the term.

Matt

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