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Professor Harold Ames had never intended to become a chemist. As a boy he'd loved puzzles: mechanical ones with tiny brass gears, crossword clues that hid other clues, and the neat certainty of Euclid's proofs. When he finally chose a field, it was an odd marriage of loves—mathematics and molecules. For his graduate studies he carried a battered copy of Mathematics for Physical Chemistry by Donald A. McQuarrie, the spine taped, margins full of his cramped notes. The book felt like a map and a mentor. McQuarrie's book has made math seem almost

Near the end, Harold turned to a whiteboard and wrote one simple differential equation. No more than a line or two. He asked the class to think of a physical system that obeyed it. Hands shot up: a cooling cup of coffee, the discharge of a capacitor, the decay of an excited state. He smiled. “It’s amazing,” he said, “how the same mathematics describes so many worlds.”

McQuarrie, already legendary for his authoritative physical chemistry textbooks (e.g., Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach ), understood that the biggest obstacle to learning p-chem is fear of the math. His mathematics text is built on a simple, powerful premise: