In this concise volume, one of the founder of quantum mechanics and one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century (Nobel laureate, 1933) attempts to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.)
The level of discussion is relatively advanced. As Professor Schrodinger remarks in the Introduction: "It is not a first introduction for newcomers to the subject, but rather a 'repetitorium.' The treatment of those topics which are to be found in every one of a hundred text-books...

Reprint of a classical book first published in 1950. This lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation is essential reading.

The object of this course of seminar lectures is to develop briefly one simple unified standard method, capable of dealing with every new problem that may arise.

A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrodinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrodinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logical deduction. But he also insists that this is true of the belief in an external world capable of...

Zu den Bchern, die die Welt bewegten, gehrt Erwin Schrdingers Meisterstck naturwissenschaftlicher Prosa Was ist Leben?. Die Vorlesungen des Physikers und Nobelpreistrgers sind erstmals 1944 verffentlicht worden. In der Einfhrung zur Neuausgabe erklrt der Biologe und Physiker Ernst Peter Fischer, wie Schrdinger damit die Erforschung der physikalischen Struktur genetischer Information begrndet hat.

Wir werden spater, aus guten Grunden, der einen den Vorzug geben, im Augenblick mussen wir uns mit beiden auseinander etzen. Die altere und naivere Anwendung bezieht sich auf N wirklich existierende physikalische Systeme, die in wirklicher physikalischer Wechselwirkung miteinander stehen, also z. B. Gasmolekule oder Elektronen oder Plancksche Oszillatoren oder Freiheitsgrade (AtherosziIlatoren) eines "Hohlraumes." Aile N zusammen stellen das betrachtete wirkliche physikalische System dar. Dieser ursprungliche Gesichtspunkt ist an die Namen von MAXWELL, BOLTZMANN und anderen geknupft. Er...