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Demons in physics

Hemmo, Meir and Orly R. Shenker: The road to Maxwell’s demon. Conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, x+327pp, £64.00 HB

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Hagar, A. Demons in physics. Metascience 23, 475–484 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9882-y

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