SCHRODINGER-STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS

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 Schrödinger 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 is severely condensed; on the other hand vital points which are usually passed over in all but the large monographs (such as Fowler's and Tolman's) are dealt with at greater level.