Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics: Developed with Especial Reference to the Rational Foundation of Thermodynamics - Couverture souple

Gibbs, Josiah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108017029 ISBN 13 : 9781108017022

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This 1902 book by the great American mathematician gives his mature vision of thermodynamics and statistical physics.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was the greatest American mathematician and physicist of the nineteenth century. He played a key role in the development of vector analysis (his book on this topic is also reissued in this series), but his deepest work was in the development of thermodynamics and statistical physics. This book, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, first published in 1902, gives his mature vision of these subjects. Mathematicians, physicists and engineers familiar with such things as Gibbs entropy, Gibbs inequality and the Gibbs distribution will find them here discussed in Gibbs' own words.

Biographie de l'auteur

In 1863 Yale University awarded J. Willard Gibbs (1839 1903) the first American doctorate in engineering. Professor of Mathematical Physics at Yale from 1871 until 1903, Gibbs made important theoretical contributions to many areas of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Together with James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann, he was instrumental in creating the discipline of statistical mechanics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108017029
• ISBN 13: 9781108017022
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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