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Maxim Raginsky's avatar

You'll love the title of this paper by Chen-Pang Yeang: "Tubes, randomness, and Brownian motions: or, how engineers learned to start worrying about electronic noise"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-011-0082-5

I discussed quite a bit of the history in my undergrad course on stochastic systems: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece498mr/sp2017/notes/lec15161718.pdf

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Erik's avatar

Einstein 1905 Brownian motion? Maxwell distribution 1859 ("the first-ever statistical law in physics"), Gibbs, Boltzmann. The mental framework for Johnson-Nyquist was already installed. Interesting post.

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