Hal Tasaki, Glenn Paquette

Gebundenes Buch

Thermodynamics: A Modern Approach

Beschreibung

This book presents a novel treatment of thermodynamics that is more rigorous, more complete, and easier to understand than the conventional treatments presented in the vast majority of existing textbooks.

Autor

Hal Tasaki received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1986. After spending two years as a postdoc with Professor Elliott Lieb at Princeton University, he settled at Gakushuin University, where he has been a professor since 1999. In 1997, he received the Kubo Memorial Prize for contributing to the mathematical-physical studies of quantum many-body systems. He has been an Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Physics (JSP) since 2018, an editor of two series on mathematical physics from Springer, and an executive committee member of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) since 2024. Glenn Paquette received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. Since then, he has held various research and faculty positions at Kyoto University in the Department of Physics, where he was Associate Professor, the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Faculty of Engineering. He is presently a freelance physicist and continues to hold visiting faculty positions at Kyoto University on a regular basis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 171mm
• ISBN-13: 9780198842033
• ISBN-10: 0198842031
• Artikelnr.: 74436759