Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire " and "At the Mountains

" and "At the Mountains of Madness

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Keynes demonstrates that if a hypothesis has even the smallest finite probability

Fixed Point Theorems

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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire " and "At the MountainsReflections on the Motive Power of Fire," along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, consisting mostly of statements couched in exact language. It represents a tribute to Carnot's capacity to generalize, and to see fundamental processes at work in complex mechanisms. "Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" examines the relation