Title Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry / Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
	Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	The authors of this book examine the evolution of quantum chemistry into an autonomous discipline, tracing its development from the publication of early papers in the 1920s to the dramatic changes brought about by the use of computers in the 1970s.
Contents	1. Quantum chemistry qua physics: the promises and deadlocks of using first principles -- 2. Quantum chemistry qua chemistry : rules and more rules -- 3. Quantum chemistry qua applied mathematics : approximation methods and crunching numbers -- 4. Quantum chemistry qua programming : computers and the cultures of quantum chemistry -- 5. The emergence of a subdiscipline : historiographical considerations
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Subject	Quantum chemistry -- History.
	Quantum chemistry.
	History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Simões, Ana.
Other Form:	Print version: Gavroglu, Kostas. Neither physics nor chemistry. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012 9780262016186 (DLC) 2011006506 (OCoLC)707486598
ISBN	9780262298759 (electronic book)
	0262298759 (electronic book)
	1283302837
	9781283302838
	9780262016186
	0262016184
Standard No.	9786613302830