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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mikhail V. Volkenstein , Robert G. Burns , Abe ShenitzerPublisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG Edition: 2009 ed. Volume: 57 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9783034600774ISBN 10: 3034600771 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 14 August 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock ![]() The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Language: Russian Table of Contents“Reflections on the motive power of fire...”.- The laws of thermodynamics.- Entropy and free energy.- Entropy and probability.- Statistics and mechanics.- Open systems.- Information.- Entropy, information, life.ReviewsFrom the reviews: ""The book is structured in eight chapters covering topics raging of the early history of thermodynamics to the complexity and value of information. ! is recommended to advanced high-school students, beginning university students and others who do not know many concepts of physics. Being a book for non-experts, the author literary describes all the notions using very simple mathematical equations ! . also, contains schemes and images for a better understanding of the reader. ! explains in details all the presented formulas and phenomenas."" (Nicolae Constantinescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1186, 2010) From the reviews: The book is structured in eight chapters covering topics raging of the early history of thermodynamics to the complexity and value of information. ! is recommended to advanced high-school students, beginning university students and others who do not know many concepts of physics. Being a book for non-experts, the author literary describes all the notions using very simple mathematical equations ! . also, contains schemes and images for a better understanding of the reader. ! explains in details all the presented formulas and phenomenas. (Nicolae Constantinescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1186, 2010) From the reviews: The book is structured in eight chapters covering topics raging of the early history of thermodynamics to the complexity and value of information. ... is recommended to advanced high-school students, beginning university students and others who do not know many concepts of physics. Being a book for non-experts, the author literary describes all the notions using very simple mathematical equations ... . also, contains schemes and images for a better understanding of the reader. ... explains in details all the presented formulas and phenomenas. (Nicolae Constantinescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1186, 2010) Author InformationMikhail Vladimirowitsch Volkenstein (1912-1992), russian bio-physicist, was director of the Institute of Molecur Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Research interests: Quantum Biophysics, Biopolymers, quantum-mechanical models of encyme catalysis, Fermi-resonance within Peptid-compounds. Volkenstein was born 1912 and died in 1992. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |