Description
I am enthusiastic about this book. It treats a standard topic for chemistry graduate students from a unique perspective in which one learns about the basics of statistical mechanics while at the same time seeing the history of how this topic developed and how the 'discovery process' works. -- George C. Schatz, Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University This book is a significant contribution to the field. It will be a worthwhile addition to the literature of physical chemistry, and potentially useful to many whose work, though perhaps in another field, requires a strong physical chemistry basis. -- Norman L. Allinger, Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Long Island University
About the Author
Donald W. Rogers is Professor Emeritus at Long Island University. He has published in the "Journal of Physical Chemistry", the "Journal of The American Chemical Society", and elsewhere. His research in quantum thermodynamics is currently supported by the National Science Foundation through the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Reviews
"It is rarely remembered in popular science circles that Einstein did much basic work on Brownian motion, produced a theory of solid-state heat capacities, and combined with the Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose to produce the so-called Bose-Einstein statistics as well. This book aims to examine these topics, apart from Brownian motion, in conjunction with Planck's contribution to the theory of black-body radiation... This book [is] ... highly recommended."--Jeremy Dunning-Davies, Chemistry World "[T]he one point that [this book] makes about Einstein is a significant one: that his contributions to quantum mechanics, and particularly to quantum statistical mechanics, are arguably at least as revolutionary as those he made via his much more famous relativity theory."--Philip Anderson, Times Higher Education Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9780691118260
Author Donald W. Rogers
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 425g