Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics) - Softcover

Gibbs, J. Willard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486789950 ISBN 13: 9780486789958

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Written by the most distinguished American mathematical physicist of the 19th century, this was the first book to bring together and arrange in logical order the works of Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs himself. The author's lucid, advanced-level text remains a valuable collection of fundamental equations and principles.

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Book Description

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was the greatest American mathematician and physicist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer of vector analysis, but his deepest work was in the development of thermodynamics and statistical physics. This book, first published in 1902, gives his mature vision of these subjects.

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0486789950
• ISBN 13: 9780486789958
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224