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About David Ruelle, after his 80th birthday

History and Philosophy of Physics 2016-10-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

This is, with minor modifications, a text read at the 114th Statistical Mechanics meeting, in honor of D.Ruelle and Y.Sinai, at Rutgers, Dec.13-15, 2015. It does not attempt to analyze, or not even just quote, all works of David Ruelle; I discuss, as usual in such occasions, a few among his works with which I have most familiarity and which were a source of inspiration for me.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07672,
  title  = {About David Ruelle, after his 80th birthday},
  author = {Giovanni Gallavotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07672},
  year   = {2016}
}