%0 Journal Article %T Maxwell's and Boltzmann's Triumphant Contributions to and Misconceived Interpretations of Thermodynamics %A Elias P. Gyftopoulos %J International Journal of Thermodynamics %D 1998 %I International Centre for Applied Thermodynamics %R 10.5541/ijot.5 %X The statistical interpretation is discussed and found to be inadequate to explain thermodynamic phenomena. Two alternative approaches to the statistical interpretation are summarized, one purely thermodynamic, and the other quantum-theoretic and thermodynamic. %K Finite time reversibility %K Maxwell's demon %K Microscopic systems %K Nonstatistical entropy %U http://www.ijoticat.com/index.php/IJoT/article/view/5