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Pierre Perrot
In thermodynamics, Pierre Perrot (1939-) is a French Gibbsian thermodynamicist noted for the publication of his 1998 thermodynamics dictionary A to Z of Thermodynamics, containing 587 thermodynamic terms, a book which, in a way, serves as an inspiration and mental outline or starting point for many articles in the Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics. [1] The following is an excellent opening quote by Perrot from his dictionary:“Isn’t thermodynamics a fine intellectual structure, bequeathed by past decades, whose every subtlety only experts in the art of handling Hamiltonians would be able to appreciate.”
Prior to the writing of his dictionary, Perrot had taught thermodynamics for over twenty years. Perrot is associated with the Laboratoire de Metallurgie Physique and the University of Lille, at the latter of which he is an emeritus professor. He is also the author the 1998 French problems/solutions manual Thermodynamique Chimique (Chemical Thermodynamics), intended for graduate students. [2]
Origin of the thermodynamics dictionary
Perrot’s 1994 French Dictionnaire de Thermodynamique (published in 1998, in English, as A to Z of Thermodynamics), found its origin during a visit to the library at the University of Lille. During one visit to the university library, Perrot, having thoughts of writing a thermodynamics textbook, counted that there were 57 thermodynamics books for students, which very approximately recopied one another, giving nearly the same presentation. In this situation, Perrot thought that it did not seem useful to make the 58th, and instead wrote the world’s first thermodynamics dictionary. [3]
References
1. Perrot, Pierre. (1998). A to Z of Thermodynamics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Perrot, Pierre. (1998). Thermodynamique chimique: Problèmes corrigés et commentés avec rappels de cours (French) (English). Dunod.
3. Email discussions between Libb Thims and Pierre Perrot on 05 January 2009.
Further reading
● Perrot, Pierre. (2007). “Some Problems in the Teaching of Thermodynamics”, Joint European Thermodynamic Conference IX, Ecole nationale superieure des mines de Saint-Etienne, France.
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