First and foremost, the essays highlight the many contributions that Tatajana Afanassjewa made to the field. In particular, the authors look at her work on the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical physics, starting in the 1920s and extending to 1964, well after the untimely death of her husband in 1933. Coverage also explores her almost entirely forgotten work on the didactics of mathematics. In addition, the book discusses her influential collaboration with her husband, the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). weiterlesen