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Day, William Alan was born on July 26, 1942 in St. Mawes, Cornwall, England. Son of William Samuel and Edith Mary (Cocking) Day.
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A Commentary on Thermodynamics (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy)
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The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorporates the effects of heat conduction and intertia, and proving appropriate results about the governing differential equations of this field theory. Even in the simplest one-dimensional case it is a nontrivial task to carry through the details of this program, and many challenging problems remain open.
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William Alan Day
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Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1968.
Career
Science officer, National Physical Laboratory United Kingdom, London, 1963-1966; postgraduate fellow, Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1966-1968; lecturer mathematics, Oxford (England) University, since 1968; fellow in applied mathematics Hertford College, Oxford (England) University, since 1968.
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A Commentary on Thermodynamics (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy)
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- Entropy and Partial Differential Equations (Research Notes in Mathematics Series)
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A Commentary on Thermodynamics (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy)
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Married Enid Patricia Williams, November 20, 1965 (deceased March 1991). Children: Nicholas, St. John. M.Helen Clare Berryman, September 5, 1992.
