Product Description: Among the best primers on chemical reactor analysis. Thorough, easy-to-follow guide features simple examples and coherent explanations of stoichiometry, thermochemistry and chemical equilibrium, basic reactor types, transient rate of reactors and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Second volume of a highly regarded two-volume set, fully usable on its own, examines physical systems that can usefully be modeled by equations of the first order. Examples are drawn from a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines...read more

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Product Description: Mathematical modeling is the art and craft of building a system of equations that is both sufficiently complex to do justice to physical reality and sufficiently simple to give real insight into the situation. Mathematical Modeling: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective provides an elementary introduction to the craft by one of the century's most distinguished practitioners...read more

Product Description: "Engaging, elegantly written." — Applied Mathematical ModellingMathematical modelling is a highly useful methodology designed to enable mathematicians, physicists and other scientists to formulate equations from a given nonmathematical situation...read more

Product Description: Estos ensayos biográficos demuestran los resortes que mueven al genio o al investigador acucioso hacia la creatividad científica. La posibilidad de seguir los pasos del proceso creador que permitió a Galileo, Newton, Raleigh, Einstein, von Newmann, entre otros, a encontrar la respuesta a sus interrogantes es poco común y permite al lector la entrada al mundo inquietante de los creadores y de sus obras...read more

Product Description: Springs of Scientific Creativity was first published in 1983.Mathematician Henri Poincaré was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he needed in his research on the theory of functions...read more