Wolfgang Yourgrau: 2 books
by Wolfgang Yourgrau, Stanley Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Concentrating upon applications that are most relevant to modern physics, this valuable book surveys variational principles and examines their relationship to dynamics and quantum theory. Stressing the history and theory of these mathematical concepts rather than the mechanics, the authors provide...
Treatise on Irreversible and Statistical Thermodynamics
An Introduction to Nonclassical Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Extensively revised edition of a much-respected work examines thermodynamics of irreversible processes, general principles of statistical thermodynamics, assemblies of noninteracting structureless particles, and statistical theory. 1966 edition.