Maxwell's Demon Bibliography


Books on J.C.Maxwell:

Berger, M.S., ed. J.C. Maxwell, the Sesquicentennial Symposium: New Vistas in Mathematics, Science, and Technology. New York: Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1984.

Buchwald, Jed Z. From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

Campbell, Lewis, and William Garnett. The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. 1882. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1969. Glazebrook, Sir Richard. James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics. New York: Cassell, 1901.

Hawkins, David. The Language of Nature. San Fransisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1964.

Thompson, J.J., et al. James Clerk Maxwell; A Commemoration Volume. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1931.

Tolstoy, Ivan. James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.


Periodicals on Maxwell's Demon:

Bennett, C.H. "Demons, Engines, and the Second Law." Scientific American Nov. 1987: 108-116.

Collier, John D. "Two Faces of Maxwell's Demon Reveal the Nature of Irreversibility." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science June 1990: 257.

Hogenboom, David L. "Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing." American Journal of Physics March 1992: 282.

Landsberg, P.T. "Maxwell's Demon (Book Review)." Nature: 31 Jan. 1991: 376.

Leff, Harvey S. "Maxwell's Demon, Power and Time." American Journal of Physics Feb. 1990: 135-42.

Skords, P.A. "Compressible Dynamics, Time Reversibility, Maxwell's Demon, and the Second Law." Physical Review E 48.2: 777-84.

Wang, Yu-Zhi. "The Origin of the Electric Current in Fu's Experiment -- an Analysis of Fu's Work on realizing Maxwell's Demon." Energy Conversion and Management 26.2 (1986): 249-52.


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