The official guide to understanding Gibbs
Peter Mander
Ever since the works of J. Willard Gibbs were first published, people have struggled to understand him. Back in 1892 Lord Rayleigh, by all accounts a capable physicist and mathematician, complained to Gibbs that his masterwork On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances was “too condensed and too difficult for most, I might say all, readers”. […]