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A First Course in the Mathematical Foundations of Thermodynamics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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A First Course in the Mathematical Foundations of Thermodynamics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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Research in the past thirty years on the foundations of
thermodynamics has led not only to a better understanding of the
early developments of the subject but also to formulations of the
First and Second Laws that permit both a rigorous analysis of the
consequences of these laws and a substantial broadening of the
class of systems to which the laws can fruitfully be applied.
Moreover, modem formulations of the laws of thermodynamics have now
achieved logically parallel forms at a level accessible to under
graduate students in science and engineering who have completed the
standard calculus sequence and who wish to understand the role
which mathematics can play in scientific inquiry. My goal in
writing this book is to make some of the modem develop ments in
thermodyamics available to readers with the background and
orientation just mentioned and to present this material in the form
of a text suitable for a one-semester junior-level course. Most of
this presentation is taken from notes that I assembled while
teaching such a course on two occasions. I found that, aside from a
brief review of line integrals and exact differentials in two
dimensions and a short discussion of infima and suprema of sets of
real numbers, juniors (and even some mature sophomores) had
sufficient mathematical background to handle the subject matter.
Many of the students whom I taught had very limited experience with
formal and rigorous mathematical exposition."
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