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Simple Theorems, Proofs, and Derivations in Quantum Chemistry

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. István Mayer

    1. Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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Part of the book series: Mathematical and Computational Chemistry (MACC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Born-Oppenheimer Hamiltonian

    • István Mayer
    Pages 1-18

  3. General Theorems and Principles

    • István Mayer
    Pages 19-44

  4. The Linear Variational Method and Löwdin’s Orthogonalization Schemes

    • István Mayer
    Pages 45-68

  5. Perturbational Methods

    • István Mayer
    Pages 69-120

  6. Determinant Wave Functions

    • István Mayer
    Pages 121-164

  7. The Hartree-Fock Method

    • István Mayer
    Pages 165-225

  8. Population Analysis, Bond Orders, and Valences

    • István Mayer
    Pages 227-249

  9. The Electron Correlation

    • István Mayer
    Pages 251-280

  10. Miscellaneous

    • István Mayer
    Pages 281-292

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 293-337
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About this book

Since 1983 I have been delivering lectures at Budapest University that are mainly attended by chemistry students who have already studied quantum chem­ istry in the amount required by the (undergraduate) chemistry curriculum of the University, and wish to acquire deeper insight in the field, possibly in prepara­ tion of a master's or Ph.D. thesis in theoretical chemistry. In such a situation, I have the freedom to discuss, in detail, a limited number of topics which I feel are important for one reason or another. The exact coverage may vary from year to year, but I usually concentrate on the general principles and theorems and other basic theoretical results which I foresee will retain their importance despite the rapid development of quantum chemistry. I commonly organize my lectures by treating the subject from the begin­ ning, without referring explicitly to any actual previous knowledge in quantum chemistry-only some familiarity with its goals, approaches and, to a lesser ex­ tent, techniques is supposed. I concentrate on the formulae and their derivation, assuming the audience essentially understands the reasons for deriving these results. This book is basically derived from the material of my lectures. The spe­ cial feature, distinguishing it from most other textbooks, is that all results are explicitly proved or derived, and the derivations are presented completely, step by step. True understanding of a theoretical result can be achieved only if one has gone through its derivation.

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  • Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    István Mayer

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