Approaches to Entropy
This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does not follow a rigid temporal order of events, nor it is meant to be comprehensive. It includes s
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Approaches to Entropy
Approaches to Entropy
Jeremy R. H. Tame
Approaches to Entropy
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Jeremy R. H. Tame Drug Design Laboratory Yokohama City University Yokohama, Japan
ISBN 978-981-13-2314-0 ISBN 978-981-13-2315-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2315-7
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To Chris, Richard and Hazel.
Preface
In the preface to his outstanding textbook Protein Interactions [1], Gregorio Weber wrote the following: I have lived through the period of the rapid expansion of the experimental techniques of protein investigation and have thus witnessed the first steps of many subjects that are now presented to the student without reference to their beginnings. When possible I have tried to refer to the original research rather than to recent reviews of these subjects. For it is not difficult to notice that the first observations contain in their naïve exposition of facts and concepts much more than many subsequent elaborations.
James Clerk Maxwell himself wrote something rather similar [2]: It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.
While no one today would attempt to learn calculus from Newton’s Principia, it seems to me that some of the earliest work on thermodynamics is also in some ways the most enlightening. There is much of value which seems to be lost in textbooks on the subject, especially on the ever-thorny topic of entropy. The problem with tackling the early works on thermodynamics is t
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