Overview
- Easy to read, all-embracing history of themrodynamics, informative, compact and sometimes amusing
- Describes the long development of thermodynamics incl. a lot of misunderstanding and misinterpretation to the conceptually simple and extremely useful theory that we know today
- Not only concentrating on the famous physicists who developed thermodynamics, but also on the engineers who have invented thermodynamic machines and processes, and on meteorologists, metallurgists and chemical engineers who applied thermodynamics in their field
- Includes a lot of original citations
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"Müller … summarizes the historical development of thermodynamic concepts, going into great depth to detail how certain discoveries were interconnected and how numerous researchers developed these theories based on current available knowledge. … Readers will appreciate how researchers in the 19th century had to develop basic concepts … . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (H. Giesche, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007)
"An exhaustive history and presentation of current state of research in the subject of thermodynamics. … This book is too good … . The author is an important leader in this field, with most impressive record of research publications. This is a great book, which should be in the library of any scientist interested in thermodynamics. It is easy to read … . It contains a lot of information about thermodynamics, certainly the history, and biographies of prominent creators of our knowledge." (Vadim Komkov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1131 (9), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Thermodynamics
Book Subtitle: The Doctrine of Energy and Entropy
Authors: Ingo Müller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46227-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-46226-2Published: 09 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07964-1Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46227-9Published: 16 July 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 320
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Engineering, general, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Thermodynamics, History of Science