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Show 65 remain and that all should be involved until it was finished. Because of these delays, the manuscript was not completed until early l944. John Wiley published the work under the title of Quantum Chemistry with a price of five dollars per copy. reviews. The book met with mixed A. S. Coolidge wrote for the American Chemistry Society Journal: Into this book, just over an inch between the covers, the authors have packed a large amount of basic theoretical material, much of it not elsewhere available except in special monographs and reviews. The presentation is of necessity condensed in style, but is skillfull and accurate and no essentials have been omitted. The work will be valuable as a convenient general reference book for the students, and for this purpose has the merit that each chapter can be read by itself, sufficient back references being supplied to indicate where the necessary preliminary material may be found. A? an aid to further study, a good bibliography is appended. 4 V. Rojansky wrote for the Review of Scientific Instruments: The book is a reliable guide to quantum chemistry, but not an easy one. The authors say that they undertook to put into a systematic, condensed form the tools which have been found useful in efforts to understand and develop the concepts in chemistry and physics. In this reviewer's opinion, parts of the book suffer from excessive condensation--somehow there is too much drive to get things done and too little stimulus for leisurely contemplation. Incidentally, the diagrams are too few; for example, although in the chapter on reaction rates, the Eckart potential is giscussed in some detail, it is not illustrated graphically. 5 The book, designed primarily for graduate students, was a complete success. During the first ten years after its publication, it had sold over 8,000 copies and had been translated into Japanese and Italian.26 Sales of the book continued at a steady rate over the next twenty-five years and by l979, after thirty-five years, the original unrevised first edition of the book had sold over 30,000 copies, 27 an average of over 862 copies per year, and had gone through over twenty separate printings |
