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Letter: Epitaph credit

Published 22 December 2004

From Karim Snoussi, University of Portsmouth

In your interview with Benoit Mandelbrot you mentioned “Ludwig Boltzmann’s famous formula for entropy” (13 November, p 50). The formula S = k log Ω carved on Boltzmann’s tombstone in the main cemetery of Vienna is due to Max Planck, one of Boltzmann’s most famous pupils.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 2479 published 25 December 2004

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