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Maxwell's demon

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Maxwell's demon
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Maxwell's demon

Summary

Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment[1]. It draws 1,029 Wikipedia views per month (thought_experiment category, ranking #8 of 56).[2]

Key Facts

  • Maxwell's demon's image is recorded as Demonio Maxwell.png[3].
  • Maxwell's demon's instance of is recorded as thought experiment[4].
  • James Clerk Maxwell is named after Maxwell's demon[5].
  • demon is named after Maxwell's demon[6].
  • Maxwell's demon's Commons category is recorded as Maxwell's demon[7].
  • Maxwell's demon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nxty[8].
  • Maxwell's demon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Maxwells-demon[9].
  • Maxwell's demon's BBC Things ID is recorded as b97e8d90-04e0-4ce4-8fcc-3217e7292162[10].
  • Maxwell's demon's uses is recorded as demon[11].
  • Maxwell's demon's studied by is recorded as thermodynamics[12].
  • Maxwell's demon's Quora topic ID is recorded as Maxwells-Demon-2[13].
  • Maxwell's demon's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Maxwells_demon[14].
  • Maxwell's demon's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 137056[15].
  • Maxwell's demon's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i86483[16].
  • Maxwell's demon's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as maxwells_demon[17].
  • Maxwell's demon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 108292794[18].
  • Maxwell's demon's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as マクスウェルの悪魔[19].
  • Maxwell's demon's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3938849[20].
  • Maxwell's demon's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Maxwell's_demon[21].
  • Maxwell's demon's Lex ID is recorded as Maxwells_dæmon[22].
  • Maxwell's demon's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09512276-n[23].
  • Maxwell's demon's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C108292794[24].
  • Maxwell's demon's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as マクスウェルの悪魔[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Maxwell's demon include daemon[26], a software category[27].

Why It Matters

Maxwell's demon draws 1,029 Wikipedia views per month (thought_experiment category, ranking #8 of 56).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for it include daemon[26], a software category[27].

Related Entities

James Clerk Maxwell thermodynamics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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