In the late 1800s, the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann needed a word to
express the idea that if you took an isolated system at constant energy
and let it run, any one trajectory, continued long enough, would be
representative of the system as a whole. Being a highly-educated
nineteenth century German-speaker, Boltzmann knew far too much ancient
Greek, so he called this the “ergodic property”, from ergon “energy, work” and hodos “way, path.” The name stuck.
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