Selected Works of Ya. B. Zeldovich is a two-volume collection of
over 100 articles spanning half a century of work by the late
Soviet scientist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. The breadth and depth
of Zeldovich's work is staggering. Author of over twenty books and
more than 500 scientific articles, he made fundamental
contributions in chemical catalysis and kinetics, combustion and
the hydrodynamics of explosive phenomena, nuclear chain reactions
and nuclear energy, the physics of elementary particles, and the
large-scale structure of the universe and cosmology. The importance
of this collection lies not only in its documentary value as a
collection of key scientific works by a man whose genius was
characterized by the Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov as "probably
unique." Zeldovich himself considered his most valuable role to be
that of a teacher, to convey to young scientists the how of
science. The author of several excellent textbooks on topics
ranging from elementary mathematics to advanced methods of
mathematical physics, he saw this collection of works, enlarged
from the original Russian edition, as a contribution to that end.
Here one can see the scientific method at work--and all the
enthusiasm, the breakthroughs, and the mistakes associated with
real scientific endeavor. Commentaries by the author and the
editors are included with each paper serving to enhance both the
historical and the pedagogical value of this edition.
Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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