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"Singlemindedly devoted to its job of educating potential many-particle theorists deserves to become the standard text in the field." Physics Today
"The most comprehensive textbook yet published in its field and every postgraduate student or teacher in this field should own or have access to a copy." Endeavor
A self-contained, unified treatment of nonrelativistic many-particle systems, this text offers a solid introduction to procedures in a manner that enables students to adopt techniques for their own use. Its discussions of formalism and applications move easily...

A considerable amount of public debate and media print has been devoted to the "war between science and religion." In his accessible and eminently readable new book, Stephen M. Barr demonstrates that what is really at war with religion is not science itself, but a philosophy called scientific materialism. Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.

Band 1: Physikalische Systeme und ihre Beschreibung erlautert die Grunbegriffe der Thermodynamik an vertrauten Systemen der Mechanik und Elektrizitatzlehre und bespricht dann die Besonderheiten des Phanomens Warme. Dieses Buch ist auch als Set in Kombination mit Band 2: Quantenstatistik aus experimenteller Sicht erhaltlich. Beide Bande schlagen eine neuartige Brucke zwischen dem traditionellen und dem statistischen Zugang zur Thermodynamik.

Die Quantenstatistik wird in diesem Buch in den Rahmen der makroskopischen Thermodynamik integriert und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus den unterschiedlichsten Bereichen der Physik auch mit Hilfe von Alltagsphanomenen illustriert. Dieses Buch ist auch als Set mit Band 1: Physikalische Systeme und ihre Beschreibung erhaltlich. Beide Bande schlagen eine neuartige Brucke zwischen dem traditionellen und dem statistischen Zugang zur Thermodynamik.

Written by students for students, Bridging the Gap to University Mathematics is a refreshing, new approach to making the transition into undergraduate-level mathematics or a similar numerate degree. Suitable for students of all backgrounds, whether A-level, Scottish Higher, International Baccalaureate or similar, the book helps readers to shape their existing knowledge and build upon current strengths in order to get the most out of their undergraduate studies.

The book can be used as a source of private study before embarking on a degree or as a textbook for an introductory...

"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies."

Galileo Galilei in Rome, 22 June 1633, before the men of the Inquisition.

In the small village of Arcetri, on a wooded hillside just south of Florence, an old man sat writing his will. He had to make a journey to Rome and wanted to be prepared for every eventuality. If the plague did not get him on the road, the strain of travelling might finish him off; in addition he had been...

This set of lectures provides an introduction to the structure, thermodynamics and dynamics of liquids, binary solutions and polymers at a level that will enable graduate students and non-specialist researchers to understand more specialized literature and to possibly start their own work in this field.

Part I starts with the introduction of distribution functions, which describe the statistical arrangements of atoms or molecules in a simple liquid. The main concepts involve mean field theories like the Perkus-Yevick theory and the random phase approximation, which relate the forces...

This book argues that science and the arts are not two different cultures, but rather different manifestations of the same culture. Divided into seven parts, it presents a collection of translated and revised essays, mostly at the intersection between realia and humaniora. In the first two parts, the author discusses how some myths, both ancient and modern, have become intertwined with scientific ideas. The chapters in the following four parts address poems, novels, plays, and pieces of fine art that have some scientific content, as well as scientific findings which seem to have...