Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications
Subtitle: Principles and Applications
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: June 6, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780125309905
First sentence: In 1830, Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who is generally recognized as the founder of sociology and positivism, wrote the following: Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry...If mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry-an aberration which is happily almost impossible-it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.