Abstract
PROF. R. H. FOWLER, with the able assistance of Dr. E. A. Guggenheim, has produced a book which will serve in many respects as a third edition of his ''Statistical Mechanics", but which does not supersede the former work entirely. The present book is written with rather a different aim in view. The first edition of "Statistical Mechanics"gives the impression that the author's interest was centred primarily on a new and elegant mathematical technique, the "method of steepest descents", which could be applied with profit to a very large number of physical problems. The second edition represents a transition stage, with more emphasis on the physical problems and less on the principles of statistical mechanics. In the present work the shift of emphasis is complete.
Statistical Thermodynamics
A Version of Statistical Mechanics for Students of Physics and Chemistry. By Prof. R. H. Fowler and Dr. E. A. Guggenheim. Pp. x + 693. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1939). 40s. net.
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MOTT, N. Statistical Thermodynamics. Nature 145, 239–240 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145239a0
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