Selected Works of Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich

Book excerpt: This two-volume set contains over 100 articles spanning half a century of work by the late Soviet scientist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. Author of over 20 books and more than 500 scientific articles, Zeldovich made fundamental contributions in chemical catalysis and kinetics, combustion and the hydrodynamics of explosive phenomena, nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy, the physics of elementary particles and the large-scale structure of the universe and cosmology. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.