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1.10 Comments and bibliographic remarks

Section 1.1

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(2005). Kinetic theory. In: Stochastic Numerics for the Boltzmann Equation. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27689-0_1

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