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New Haven:: Yale Metallurgical Alumni, 1941., 1941. 8vo. xxxi, 184 pp. Frontis., illustrations, figs., tables. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles; a few scuffs to spine, els… Plus…

New Haven:: Yale Metallurgical Alumni, 1941., 1941. 8vo. xxxi, 184 pp. Frontis., illustrations, figs., tables. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles; a few scuffs to spine, else very good. Burndy bookplate. SIGNED BY CYRIL STANLEY SMITH. Mathewson was a "pioneer of modern physical metallurgy in this country, who laid much of the foundation of our understanding of the working and annealing of metals. His impact on the science, both through his own work and even more through his students who now occupy key positions in industry and universities, can scarcely be overestimated. For his contributions and his influence, he may well he regarded as the Dean of American metallurgists." / Champion Herbert Mathewson was born in 1881 in Essex, Conn. From Yale University he received a Ph.B. and later an honorary D.Sc. From Gottingen University he received an M.A. and Ph.D. From 1904 to 1906 he was Austin Fellow of M.I.T. where he was successively Assistant Instructor in Chemistry, 1902-1904, and Instructor in 1906-1907. / From 1907 to 1950 he was on the Faculty at Yale University, serving as Instructor, Assistant Professor, and Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography. He has been Emeritus Professor since 1950. / At various times Dr. Mathewson has been Metallurgical Consultant for the New Jersey Zinc Co., the Scovil Manufacturing Co., the Chase Copper and Brass Co., and the Bell Telephone Laboratories. / He has been active on many technical committees of chemical and engineering societies. From 1941-1947 he was a member of the Nonferrous Metallurgical Advisory Board of the U. S. Ordnance Department, operating at the Frankford Arsenal. He is the author of numerous publications on constitution and plastic deformation of metals and all0ys, and Editor of Modern Uses of Nonferrous Metals, published by AIME. / Dr. Mathewson received the James Douglas Medal from AIME and the Gold Medal of the American Society for Metals. AIME has also honored him in the creation of the Mathewson Gold Medal, for meritorious research publication. He was Chairman of the Institute of Metals Division, AIME, in 1932; Institute of Metals Division Lecturer in 1928; and President of AIME in 1943. Also, in 1943, he was Campbell Memorial Lecturer for the American Society for Metals. [AIME], Yale Metallurgical Alumni, 1941., 1941, 0, Cambridge:: University Press, (1995)., 1995. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 437 pp. Figures, index. Purple printed wrappers. Near fine. [br] ISBN: 0521558816 Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion of time asymmetry in the entropic asymmetry of systems in time. The book emphasizes the interaction of scientific and philosophical modes of reasoning, and in this way will interest all philosophers of science as well as those in physics and chemistry concerned with philosophical questions. The book could also be read by an informed general reader interested in the foundations of modern science. [CUP]. Sklar is the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan., University Press, (1995)., 1995, 0<

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