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When our story starts more than 200 years ago, Grenoble in southeastern France is a remote cold mountain town, where one can only yearn for Paris.
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Statistical mechanics , which eventually bridged the gap between mechanics and heat, was developed a few decades later by Maxwell and completed by Boltzmann .
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The one-dimensional diffusion equation (also called Fick’s second law) is \( \frac{\text{d}n}{\text{d}t} = D\frac{{\text{d}^{2} n}}{{\text{d}x^{2} }} \).
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Vogl, G. (2019). The Invention of the Flux. In: Adventure Diffusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04681-1_2
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