Robert H. Swendsen (Emeritus Professor, Physics Department, Emeritu

Gebundenes Buch

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Beschreibung

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics returns with a second edition includes new chapters, further explorations, and updated information into the study of statistical mechanics and thermal dynamics.

Autor

Robert Swendsen received his BS from Yale and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He did postdoctoral work at the Universität zu Köln, Germany, the Kernforschungsanlage in Jülich, Germany, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. From 1978 to 1984 he worked at the IBM Zurich Research Center. In 1984, he joined Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was given an IBM Outstanding Achievement Award in 1981 and shared a Forefronts of Large-Scale Computational Problems Award with S. Kumar, J.M. Rosenberg, and P.A. Kollman in 1991. He was awarded the 2014 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics and the 2014 Julius Ashkin Teaching Award in the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Graduate Texts
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1118g
• ISBN-13: 9780198853237
• ISBN-10: 0198853238
• Artikelnr.: 57360481