Initially published in Moscow in 1950 following the author's death, this
book contains the first chapters of a large monograph Krylov planned
entitled The foundations of physical statistics," his doctoral thesis on
"The processes of relaxation of statistical systems and the criterion of
mechanical instability," and a small paper entitled "On the description
of exhaustively complete experiments."
Originally published in 1980.
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