Thermodynamics

sorry, this post is actually about thermodynamics. there is a very interesting review of the Gibbs' Paradox here. quite an interesting perspective. personally, I believe that no teaching of thermodynamics can ever be complete without referring to both the axiomatic formulation by Caratheodary, which goes in one direction and then to walkk into applications of the various thermodynamic potentials. but then again, it is probably a good idea to talk about the Legendre transformation. this will take up time though, which ... people do not have!