An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems : Part I

Gould, Harvey; Tobochnik, Jan

ISBN 10: 0201165031 / ISBN 13: 9780201165036

Published by Addison-Wesley, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems : Part I
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201165031
• ISBN 13: 9780201165036
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Slight shelf wear. Pencil markings on a few pages. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

About the Author

Harvey Gould uses molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods to study glasses, the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, and other problems in statistical mechanics. His work involves the application of computer simulation algorithms as well as renormalization group and cluster methods. Gould recently co-authored the second edition of an undergraduate level text on computer simulation in physics. He can "foresee the day when physics students take a required computational science curriculum comparable in scope to the present day mathematics curriculum."

Gould is a native of California and received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work at the National Bureau of Standards and taught at the University of Michigan before coming to Clark University in 1971. His leisure time is spent with his family and listening to music, especially jazz.