Month: June 2021

Rudolf Clausius was both a mathematician and physicist. Sadi Carnot was a mechanical engineer. Lord Kelvin did not spare a crown, and became a specialist of all the three disciplines. These people are usually regarded as the “inventors” of thermodynamics.

Imagine waking up in a Salvador Dalí painting. You reach over to touch your alarm clock, only to discover that it melted into a puddle during the night. The sun rising outside your window illuminates the hedge in your garden now