Overview
At the end of the workshop on ""New Theoretical Concepts in Physical Chemistry"", one of the participants made an attempt to present a first impression of its achievements from his own personal standpoint. Appar ently his views reflected a general feeling, so that the organizers thought they would be suitable as a presentation of the proceedings for future readers. That is the background from which this foreword was born. The scope of the workshop is a very broad one. There are contribu tions from mathematics, physics, crystallography, chemistry and biology; the problems are approached either by means of axiomatic and rigorous methods, or at an empirical phenomenological level. This same diversifi cation can be found in the new basic concepts presented. Some arise from pure theoretical investigation in C*-algebra or in quantum probability theory; others from an analysis of very complex experimental data like nuclear energy levels, or processes on the frontier between classical and quantum physics; others again have their origin in the discovery of new ordered structures like the icosahedral crystal phases, or the knots of DNA molecules; others follow from the application of ideas like frac tals or chaos to new fields like spectral theory or chemical reactions. It is to be expected that readers will have to face the same sort of difficulties as did the participants in understanding such diverse languages, in applying themselves to subjects possibly far from their own experience, and in grasping highly sophisticated new concepts.
Full Product Details
Author: Anton Amann ,
L. Cederbaum ,
Werner Gans ,
W. Gans
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition: 1988 ed.
Volume: 235
Weight: 0.780kg
ISBN: 9789027727503
ISBN 10: 9027727503
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 31 July 1988
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'The present book might be appealing to theoretical chemists because the interesting mixture of mathematics, physics and chemistry is rather stimulating and it presents problems, concepts andd results which do not belong to the standard knowledge of theoretical chemists yet.' T. Hoffmann-Odrmhof and P. Schuster, Theoretica Chimica Acta, Vol. 76, 1989.
`The present book might be appealing to theoretical chemists because the interesting mixture of mathematics, physics and chemistry is rather stimulating and it presents problems, concepts andd results which do not belong to the standard knowledge of theoretical chemists yet.' T. Hoffmann-Odrmhof and P. Schuster, Theoretica Chimica Acta, Vol. 76, 1989.
