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Seitz F 1948 Modern Theory of Solids (New York McGraw-Hill)... 

Domb C 1996 The Critical Point. A Historical Introduction to the Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena (London Taylor and Francis)... 

Almidf J 1995 Direct methods in electronic structure theory Modern Electronic Structure Theory yo 2, ed D R Yarkony (Singapore World Scientific) pp 110-51... 

Landkof N.S. (1966) Foundations of a modern theory of a potential. Nauka, Moscow (in Russian). 

T. M. Duncan and C. R. Dybowski. Surf Sci. Rep. 1,157,1981. An excellent review of relevant NMR theory, modern techniques, and applicadons to surfaces. 

Cottrell, A. (1988) Introduction to the Modern Theory of Metals (The Institute of Metals, London). 

Seitz, F. (1940) The Modern Theory of Solids (McGraw-Hill, New York). 

As we saw in Chapter 3, the founding text of modern materials science was Frederick Seitz s The Modern Theory of Solids (1940) an updated version of this, also very influential in its day, was Charles Wert and Robb Thomson s Physies of Solids (1964). Alan Cottrell s Theoretical Structural Metallurgy appeared in 1948 (see Chapter 5) although devoted to metals, this book was in many ways a true precursor of materials science texts. Richard Weiss brought out Solid State Physics for Metallurgists in 1963. Several books such as Properties of Matter (1970), by Mendoza and Flowers, were on the borders of physics and materials science. Another key precursor book, still cited today, was Darken and Gurry s book. Physical Chemistry of Metals (1953), followed by Swalin s Thermodynamics of Solids. 

In 1914, F. W. Lanchester introduced a set of coupled ordinary differential equations-now commonly called the Lanchester Equationsl (LEs)-as models of attrition in modern warfare. Similar ideas were proposed around that time by [chaseSS] and [osip95]. These equations are formally equivalent to the Lotka-Volterra equations used for modeling the dynamics of interacting predator-prey populations [hof98]. The LEs have since served as the fundamental mathematical models upon which most modern theories of combat attrition are based, and are to this day embedded in many state-of-the-art military models of combat. [Taylor] provides a thorough mathematical discussion. 

The modern theory of the behavior Of matter, called quantum mechanics, was developed by several workers in the years 1925-1927. For our purposes the most important result of the quantum mechanical theory is that the motion of an electron is described by the quantum numbers and orbitals. Quantum numbers are integers that identify the stationary states of an atom the word orbital means a spatial description of the motion of an electron corresponding to a particular stationary state. 

H. B. Watson, Modern Theories of Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1941, p. 241. 

Modern theories suggest that our concept of space breaks down on a scale of Hr 34 m, so that may constitute a lower bound to electromagnetic radiation wavelength. 

The modem theory of valency is not simple—it is not possible to assign in an unambiguous way definite valencies to the various atoms in a molecule or crystal. It is instead necessary to dissociate the concept of valency into several new concepts—ionic valency, covalency, metallic valency, oxidation number—that are capable of more precise treatment and even these more precise concepts in general involve an approximation, the complete description of the bonds between the atoms in a molecule or crystal being given only by a detailed discussion of its electronic structure. Nevertheless, these concepts, of ionic valency, covalency, etc., have been found to be so useful as to justify our considering them as constituting the modern theory of valency. 

A. Sommerfeld and H. Bethe, "Handbuch der Physik," Voi. 24, second edition N. F. Mott and H. Jones, "The Theory of the Properties of Metals and Alloys," Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1936 F. Seitz, "The Modern Theory of Solids," McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, N. Y., 1940. 

YamakawaH (1971) Modern Theory of Polymer Solutions. Harper and Row, New... 

F. C. Goodrich and A. I. Rusanov (eds.). The Modern Theory of Capillarity, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1981. 

T.J. Bruno and J.F. Ely (eds), Supercritical Fluid Technology Reviews in Modern Theory and Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1991). 

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