The current volume is a very practical book, consisting primarily of many examples and exercises. In particular, The Construction of Spin Eigenfunctions presents all aspects connected with the construction of spin eigenfunctions, and their relationship with many-electron antisymmetric wave functions. This book treats new aligorithms in a way that no previous books have.
The Construction of Spin Eigenfunctions opens with a brief theoretical introduction.
Due to the increasing importance of spin eigenfunctions in quantum chemistry, Dr. Pauncz has followed up with two helpful chapters on the symmetric group and its representations. The author has also calculated matrix elements of the Hamiltonian using spin eigenfunctions. Dr. Pauncz wraps up the book with an important new technique: the spin-coupled valence bond method.
This book should be very useful to graduate students working in the field of molecular quantum mechanics. It also could be used as a text for a one-semester graduate course in physics or in chemistry.