Jerome K. Percus
Jerome Kenneth Percus (born 21 June 1926 in New York City; died 7 March 2021)[1] was a physicist and mathematician known for important contributions to statistical physics, chemical physics, and applied mathematics.
In 1958, he published with George J. Yevick a groundbreaking study on the statistical mechanics of classical liquids.[2] They formulated an integral equation (Percus-Yevick equation) that is the foundation for several approximation methods for computing the pair correlation function, and thereby allow the derivation of thermodynamic properties from first principles.
Works[edit]
Percus published several books:
- Combinatorial Methods, Applied Mathematical Sciences 4, Springer 1971
- Mathematics of genome analysis, Cambridge UP 2002
- Mathematical models in developmental biology, Courant Lectures in Mathematics 26, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 2015 with Stephen Childress
References[edit]
- ^ "Obituaries | Columbia College Today". college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ Jerome K. Percus, George J. Yevick (1958), "Analysis of Classical Statistical Mechanics by Means of Collective Coordinates", Physical Review (in German), vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 1-13, doi:10.1103/PhysRev.110.1
External links[edit]
- Homepage an der New York University
- Jerome K. Percus at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Lebensdaten, Publikationen und Akademischer Stammbaum von Jerome K. Percus bei academictree.org, retrieved 22 April 2018.
- Works by and about Jerome K. Percus in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
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