"Zur quantenmechanischen Begrundung des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Warmelehre."
first edition
1931 · In: Zeitschrift fur Physik, Vol. 72, 1931. Berlin:
by KLEIN, Oskar Benjamin (1894-1977).
In: Zeitschrift fur Physik, Vol. 72, 1931. Berlin:: Julius Springer, 1931., 1931. 8vo. 767-775 pp. Navy cloth, gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "In his first scientific paper at Stockholm (1931), Klein gave, in the tradition of Gibb's statistical mechanics, an explanation of the thermodynamic irreversibility paradoxically generated by mechanically reversible systems. For this purpose he used an inequality (later known as Klein's lemma) for the statistical probability given by (truncated)