"...an excellent desktop reference source for students and researchers who use, or are looking to use, computational approaches to study the solid state. It is well organized, with just enough detail to provide insight into various techniques and applications...The monograph also comes at an appropriate time, for as computational methods become accessible to many different researchers, an understanding and assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the various models is needed." Angewandte Chemie
"A unique strength of the book is that the author presents the various methods from the context of problem-solving, with a fairly neutral perspective of the relative merits of each method. The book is highly readable and accessible for nonexperts and, along with other texts as noted above, should greatly enhance the training of anyone in this field." J. AM. CHEM. SOC. "...ein hervorragendes Handbuch für Studierende und Forscher, die sich mit Rechenmethoden für Festkörperuntersuchungen beschäftigen. Das Buch ist systematisch geordnet und bietet in verständlicher Weise Einblicke in die erläuterten Techniken...Zu alledem kommt dieses Buch genau zur rechten Zeit, denn da Rechenmethoden immer leichter zugänglich werden, bedarf es einer gründlichen Erläuterung von Stärken und Schwächen der vielfältigen in Gebrauch befindlichen Modelle." Angewandte Chemie