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Several stories from theoretical chemistry with some R ussian flavor and implications for theorems of chemistry, vagueness of its concepts, fuzziness of its definitions, iconicity of its language, and peculiarities of its nomenclature
Author(s) -
Tchougréeff Andrei L.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.25050
Subject(s) - vagueness , relation (database) , iconicity , quantum chemistry , chemistry , epistemology , chemical nomenclature , valence (chemistry) , theoretical physics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , physics , organic chemistry , fuzzy logic , database , electrode , electrochemistry
We present an informal discussion of the problems related to emergence and development of theoretical chemistry concepts and their relation to those of quantum mechanics and general mathematical thinking. This also brings us to a discussion of axiomatization of chemical knowledge, relation between iconic language of (organic) chemistry and symbolic language of physics, relations between molecular orbital and valence bond pictures of molecular electronic structure and other similar problems. Because of the thematic orientation of the present issue of the Int. J. Quantum Chem . Russian contributions to setting and solving the above problems are highlighted. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.