FOUNDATIONS
OF
STATISTICAL PHYSICS
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that
Gibbs's
approach
had
gained a
wide
following among physicists by
the end
of
the first
decade
of
this
century,[76]
Einstein treated the essential issues in much the
same
way as
in
his
earlier
papers.[77]
[76]
See
Ehrenfest
and
Ehrenfest
1911 for
a
contemporary survey.
[77]
For further discussion
of Einstein's
work
on
the foundations
of
statistical
physics, see
Byrne
1980, 1981;
Klein
1967,
1974b, 1982a;
Kuhn
1978,
pp.
171-182;
Mehra
and
Rechen-
berg 1982,
pp.
64-70; and
Pais
1982,
chap.
4.