Methods in Computational Chemistry

Volume 1 Electron Correlation in Atoms and Molecules

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

1987 | 1987 ed.
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-42645-2 (ISBN)

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When, forty years ago, as a student of Charles Coulson in Oxford I began work in theoretical chemistry, I was provided with a Brunsviga calculator-a small mechanical device with a handle for propulsion, metal levers for setting the numbers, and a bell that rang to indicate overflow. What has since come to be known as computational chemistry was just beginning. There followed a long period in which the fundamental theory of the "golden age" (1925-1935) was extended and refined and in which the dreams of the early practitioners were gradually turned into hard arithmetic reality. As a still-computing survivor from the early postwar days now enjoying the benefits of unbelievably improved hardware, I am glad to contribute a foreword to this series and to have the opportunity of providing a little historical perspective. After the Brunsviga came the electromechanical machines of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and a great reduction in the burden of calculating molecular wavefunctions. We were now happy. At least for systems con taining a few electrons it was possible to make fully ab initio calculations, even though semiempirical models remained indispensable for most molecules of everyday interest. The 1950 papers of Hall and of Roothaan represented an important milestone along the road to larger-scale non empirical calculations, extending the prewar work of Hartree and Fock from many-electron atoms to many-electron molecules-and thus into "real chemistry.

1. Electron Correlation in Atoms.- 2. Electron Correlation in Molecules.- 3. Four-Index Transformations.- 4. Green’s Function Monte Carlo Methods.- Author Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.1987
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 364 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
ISBN-10	0-306-42645-5 / 0306426455
ISBN-13	978-0-306-42645-2 / 9780306426452
Zustand	Neuware