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Not as good as I expected.
Henry Cartan life is, withou any questions, one of the most prolific of this century, and this book reflects that and nothing more. This is a good book to have in your library if complex analysis is what you like, but notso good if any other part of math is your mayor concern. To expensive forwhat you get. Another downside it is ONLY in french. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Théophile Ernest de Donder (1872 ? 1957) was a Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. He was professor between 1911 and 1942, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Initially he continued the work of Henri Poincaré and Elie Cartan. As from 1914 he was influenced by the work of Albert Einstein and was an enthusiastic proponent of the theory of relativity. He gained significant reputation in 1923, when he developed his definition of chemical affinity. He pointed out a connection between the chemical affinity and the Gibbs free energy. ... Read more