Constantin Carathéodory and the axiomatic thermodynamics |
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Authors: | Lionello Pogliani Mario N Berberan-Santos |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita' della Calabria, 87030 Rende (CS), Italy;(2) Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal |
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Abstract: | The birth, raise, development and fortunes of a fundamental theory in thermodynamics, the axiomatic thermodynamics, a creation of Constantin Carathéodory, is thoroughly presented together with a summary of Carathéodory's biography. Axiomatic thermodynamics is centered around some interesting properties of Pfaffian differential equations, which are here introduced and used for some well-known cases in thermodynamics. |
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Keywords: | axiomatic thermodynamics Constantin Carathé odory Pfaffian differential equations |
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