Dewey B. Larson wrote The Liquid State Papers in the early 1960s as a follow-up to his seminal work, The Structure of the Physical Universe (1959), and circulated them in the form of a typescript among a select group of correspondents. Whenever asked in...
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Dewey B. Larson wrote The Liquid State Papers in the early 1960s as a follow-up to his seminal work, The Structure of the Physical Universe (1959), and circulated them in the form of a typescript among a select group of correspondents. Whenever asked in his later years about possible publication, Larson would reply that the subject deserved a more thorough treatment that would take into account the theoretical progress achieved during the intervening decades. Given the fact that he did not in the end undertake such a project, it seems advisable to make these papers available to a wider public in their original form.
A word of caution is nevertheless in order: the material included in this volume has not had the benefit of the author’s final revisions in the light of subsequent theoretical developments. Even so, despite the passage of some seven decades, it remains unsurpassed in its field.
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