Conceptual Trends in Quantum Chemistry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)

The rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full Ecclesiastes What is quantum chemistry? The straightforward answer is that it is what quan tum chemists do. But it must be admitted, that in contrast to physicists and chemists, "quantum chemists" seem to be a rather ill-defined category of scientists. Quantum chemists are more or less physicists (basically theoreticians), more or less chemists, and by large, computationists. But first and foremost, we, quantum chemists, are conscious beings. We may safely guess that quantum chemistry was one of the first areas in the natural sciences to lie on the boundaries of many disciplines. We may certainly claim that quantum chemists were the first to use computers for really large scale calculations. The scope of the problems which quantum chemistry wishes to answer and which, by its unique nature, only quantum chemistry can only answer is growing daily. Retrospectively we may guess that many of those problems meet a daily need, or are say, technical in some sense. The rest are fundamental or conceptual. The daily life of most quantum chemists is usually filled with grasping the more or less technical problems. But it is at least as important to devote some time to the other kind of problems whose solution will open up new perspectives for both quantum chemistry itself and for the natural sciences in general.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1994
Editors:	Eugene S. Kryachko • Jean-Louis Calais
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
ISBN-13:	978-9401043670
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Physical chemistry > Quantum & theoretical chemistry
LSN:	9401043671
Barcode:	9789401043670

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