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Science is a collective human enterprise in which we continuously strive to achieve some coherent and rational understandings of how nature, our environs, and ourselves function. A collective effort implies that there is a system of rules and procedures according to which the individuals of the group endeavor to contribute to the general aim, and although such rules and procedures are ever refined and continuously reformulated over time so that they are better suited for the new questions to be answered, their evolution is such that the new ones are inclusive of the old in some manner and form whereas some of the old are simply discarded. The science of statistical mechanics is one of such strands of thoughts and methodologies known to serve the aforementioned aim.
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Eu, B.C. (1998). Introduction. In: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2438-8_1
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