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1856010227London: Richard Taylor and William Francis 1856. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition in original green embossed cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine Very Good corners turned in widely scattered small spots of browning hinges tight. With three engraved plates one folding and errata slip tipped at p. 445. The inked signature of Robert Siegfried front paste down. viii 496 pp. Richard Taylor and William Francis Hardcover
1969PH-341Boulder CO.: Golem Press 1969. Classic highly-acclaimed treatise on the Wiener-Hopf technique as applied to waveguides antennas and electromagnetic wave propagation. Weinstein was the first to generalize the Wiener-Hopf method for application to open-ended waveguides and related problems. Part I contains topics covering the diffraction of electromagnetic and acoustic waves at the open end of plane-parallel and circular waveguides including the author's rigorous solutions. Part II contains topics covering a wide variety of diffraction and propagation problems such as axial resonators; noncontacting plungers; corrugated structures; gratings; diaphrams in waveguides; finitely conducting structures; surface waves; shore refraction; sheath helixes; radiation; etc. 411 pgs. Illustrated. This edition has been Corrected and Updated by the author with respect to the original Russian edition published in 1966. Dustjacket price-clipped on lower front flap; very minimal rubbing to edges; in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear to text; upper corners slightly bumped. Scarce. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Golem Press Hardcover
059841Joseph Henry Laboratories Princeton Unibversity 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. I 538-605 Pp. Offprint In Card Covers With Cutout Front Cover Black Binding. Near Fine Slight Aging To Covers. Inscribed By Wheeler To Adolf Grunebaum. Per Wikipedia Adolf Grünbaum 1923 - 2018 Was A German-American Philosopher Of Science And A Critic Of Both Psychoanalysis And Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science. He Was The First Andrew Mellon Professor Of Philosophy At The University Of Pittsburgh From 1960 Until His Death And Also Served As Co-Chairman Of Its Center For Philosophy Of Science From 1978 Research Professor Of Psychiatry From 1979 And Primary Research Professor In The Department Of History And Philosophy Of Science From 2006. His Works Include Philosophical Problems Of Space And Time 1963 The Foundations Of Psychoanalysis 1984 And Validation In The Clinical Theory Of Psychoanalysis 1993. <br/> <br/> Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton Unibversity paperback
1998056212New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 380 Pp. Black Boards Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Signed By John Archibald Wheeler. Near Fine No Wear But Foxing Along Top Edge And Fore Edge Of Page Block In Fine Dust Jacket "Signed Copy" Sticker On Front Panel Priced $27.95. <br/> <br/> W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1998046940New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 380 Pp. Black Boards Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Inscribed On The Half Title Page By John Archibald Wheeler. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $27.95. <br/> <br/> W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1950046939American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 422 Pp. Annual Volume 1950 Bound With Green Morocco Spine And Tips No Wrapers. Patterned Boards Speckled Edges Gilt Title On Spine. Near Fine No Wear Immaculate Gilt Brilliant "Hauptbucherel" Stamp And Circular Ownership Stamp In Ludwigshafen On Title Page Vertical Crease On Title Page Else Fine. Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Field Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". In September 1944 Wu Was Contacted By The Manhattan District Engineer Colonel Kenneth Nichols. Wu Was Frustrated With Her Lack Of Professorships And Volunteered To Help Out In The Project. The Newly Commissioned B Reactor The First Practical Nuclear Reactor Ever Built Which Was Located At The Hanford Site Had Run Into An Unexpected Problem Starting Up And Shutting Down At Regular Intervals. John Archibald Wheeler And Partner Enrico Fermi Suspected That A Fission Product Xe-135 With A Half-Life Of 9.4 Hours Was The Culprit And Might Be A Neutron Poison Or Absorber. Segrè Then Remembered The 1940 Phd Thesis That Wu Had Done For Him At Berkeley On The Radioactive Isotopes Of Xe And Told Fermi To "Ask Ms. Wu". After Fermi Contacted Wu Segrè Visited Her Dorm Room Together With Nichols And Collected The Typewritten Draft Prepared For The Physical Review. The Suspicions Of Fermi And Wheeler Came True Wu's Paper Unknowingly Verified That Xe-135 Was Indeed The Culprit For The B Reactor; It Turned Out To Have An Unexpectedly Large Neutron Absorption Cross-Section. Wu Also Used Her Findings In Radioactive Uranium Separation To Build The Standard Model For Producing Enriched Uranium To Fuel The Atomic Bombs At The Oak Ridge Tennessee Facility As Well As Build Innovative Geiger Counters. Wu Like Most Involved Physicists In Their Later Years Distanced Herself From The Manhattan Project Due To Its Destructive Outcome And Recommended To The Taiwanese President Chiang Kai-Shek In 1962 To Never Build Nuclear Weapons. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Managed To Be The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. In Her Post-War Research Wu Continued To Investigate Beta Decay. In 1949 Wu Completely Established Fermi's Theory And Showed How Beta Decay Worked Especially In Creating Electrons Neutrinos And Positrons.At Columbia Wu Knew The Chinese-Born Theoretical Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee Personally. In The Mid-1950S Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry. See The Much Longer Wikipedia Article. <br/> <br/> American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics hardcover
2000034820Cambridge / London: The MIT Press 2000. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Xxi 135 Pp. Blue Cloth Silver Gilt. Second Printing. Inscribed By The Author To A Caltech Professor Jerry Solomon: " To Jerry With High Hopes For A Deeper Understanding Of The Laws Of Nature C A Mead". As New In As New Dj. Per Wikipedia Carver Andress Mead Born 1934 Is An American Scientist And Engineer. He Currently Holds The Position Of Gordon And Betty Moore Professor Emeritus Of Engineering And Applied Science At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Having Taught There For Over 40 Years. He Taught Deborah Chung The First Female Engineering Graduate Of Caltech. He Advised The First Female Electrical Engineering Student At Caltech Louise Kirkbride. His Contributions As A Teacher Include The Classic Textbook Introduction To Vlsi Systems 1980 Which He Coauthored With Lynn Conway. A Pioneer Of Modern Microelectronics He Has Made Contributions To The Development And Design Of Semiconductors Digital Chips And Silicon Compilers Technologies Which Form The Foundations Of Modern Very-Large-Scale Integration Chip Design. In The 1980S He Focused On Electronic Modelling Of Human Neurology And Biology Creating "Neuromorphic Electronic Systems."567 Mead Has Been Involved In The Founding Of More Than 20 Companies.8 Most Recently He Has Called For The Reconceptualization Of Modern Physics Revisiting The Theoretical Debates Of Niels Bohr Albert Einstein And Others In Light Of Later Experiments And Developments In Instrumentation. Carver Mead Has Developed An Approach He Calls Collective Electrodynamics In Which Electromagnetic Effects Including Quantized Energy Transfer Are Derived From The Interactions Of The Wavefunctions Of Electrons Behaving Collectively.68 In This Formulation The Photon Is A Non-Entity And Planck's Energy-Frequency Relationship Comes From The Interactions Of Electron Eigenstates. The Approach Is Related To John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics To The Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory Of Electrodynamics And To Gilbert N. Lewis's Early Description Of Electromagnetic Energy Exchange At Zero IntervalClarification Needed In Spacetime. Although This Reconceptualization Does Not Pertain To Gravitation A Gravitational Extension Of It Makes Predictions That Differ From General Relativity. For Instance Gravitational Waves Should Have A Different Polarization Under "G4v" The Name Given To This New Theory Of Gravity. Moreover This Difference In Polarization Can Be Detected By Advanced Ligo. <br/> <br/> The MIT Press hardcover
1782r5076London: C. Dilly and J. Bowen. Cover rubbed with corner wear. Neatly rebacked with new eps. Content VG. 1782. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions and Alterations. Leather cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xxiv 495pp index. 4 folding engraved plates. The author 1749-1809 was an Anglo-Italian physicist and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. . C. Dilly and J. Bowen hardcover
1970PH-368Moscow Russia: Mir Publishers 1970. Classic text translated from the original Russian contains detailed topics covering axioms of statics and dynamics; couple; systems of concurrent forces in a plane; friction; two- and three-dimension force systems; centroids and centers of gravity; kinematics; complex motion of particles; plane motion; method of kinetostatics; laws of dynamics; application of the laws of kinematics and dynamics to the analysis of mechanisms; etc. 410 pp. Illustrated. Minor small discoloration mark on the rear cover; minimal shelfwear. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mir Publishers Hardcover
189643069Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1896. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Band 58 of "Annalen der Physik und Chemie". Library stamp to verso of title-page. Light wear to edges and capitals and a damp-stain to the lower part of the last three leaves. Otherwise a clean and well preserved copy. The entire volume offered. Pp. 662-669. Entire volume: VIII 776 pp. 6 folded plates. <br/><br/><em>First edition of Wilhelm Wien's highly influential paper on the phenomenon of radiation also known as Wien's displacement law. Wien followed Ludwig Boltzmann's approach when incorporating electrodynamics and thermodynamics in investigating radiation and its characteristics. "He argued that if a system reaches the same temperature by the increase of temperature or by the adiabatic compression of the volume containing heat radiation it should yield the same energy distribution. Considering also the Doppler effect of the radiation Wien arrived at an expression for energy distribution that states that the product of temperature and the wave length is a constant". Mathew Chandrankunnel Philosophy of physics 2000 4 p.Wien's empirical observations functioned as a starting point for Max Planck who wanted prove the theoretical foundation for Wien's wishing thus to justify the entropy law. Today Wien's approximation is also known as Wien-Planck law.This phenomenon was coined "Wien's displacement law" because the energy density curve is displaced correspondingly to the temperature; it implies that the hotter an object is the shorter the wavelength at which it will release most of its radiation. Wien's description of radiation awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911. Wien's constant is today used in a wide range of different aspects of physics e.g. cosmic microwave background and the determination of how much energy is emitted from a light bulb. Magie "A Source Book in Physics". Pp. 597-600.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:KOHLRAUSCH F. Ueber Widerstandsmessungen von Electrolyten mit Wechselströmen durch das Dynamometer. Pp. 514-516.BOLTZMANN L. Zur Energetik. Pp. 595-598.RYDBERG J. J. Die Neuen Grundstoffe des Cleveïtgases. Pp. 674-679.WIEN W. Ueber die auf einer schweren Flüssigkeit möglichen Wellen von sehr Höhe. Pp. 729-735.Etc. </em> hardcover
1966056553New York: Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xiv 394 Pp. Gray-Green Cloth Printed In Dark Green. First Printing. Near Fine Two Small Name Stamps Of Prominent Physicist Lorenzo Dow Hendrick On Front Endpapers. Remarkably Thorough Experimental And Theoretical History And Analysis. Definitive For The Advanced Student And The Expert. Per Wikipedia Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; Pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Chien4-Hsiung2; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Fields Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". After Work On The Manhattan Project During Wwii Wu Accepted An Offer Of A Position As An Associate Research Professor At Columbia. She Would Remain At Columbia For The Rest Of Her Career And Was First Named Associate Professor In 1952 Which Made Her The First Woman To Become A Tenured Physics Professor In University History. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Was The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation As Her Result Confirmed Maurice Pryce And John Clive Ward's Calculations On The Correlation Of The Quantum Polarizations Of Two Photons Propagating In Opposite Directions. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. Her 1950 Letter To Physical Review Famously Identified Confirmation Of Wheeler's Ideas On Entanglement. Tsung-Dao Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". Lee And Yang Worked Out A Pencil-And-Paper Design Of An Experiment For Testing Conservation Of Parity In The Laboratory. Because Of Her Expertise In Choosing And Then Working Out The Hardware Manufacture Set-Up And Laboratory Procedures Wu Then Informed Lee That She Could Carry Out The Experiment. Wu Chose To Do This By Taking A Sample Of Radioactive Cobalt-60 And Cooling It To Cryogenic Temperatures With Liquid Gases. Cobalt-60 Is An Isotope That Decays By Beta Particle Emission And Wu Was Also An Expert On Beta Decay. The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry.The Wide Coverage Of Her Discovery Prompted The Discoverer Of Fission Otto Frisch To Mention That Those At Princeton Would Often Say That Her Experiment Was The Most Impactful Since The Michelson-Morley Experiment That Inspired Einstein's Theory Of Relativity. In December 1962 Wu Experimentally Demonstrated A Universal Form And More Accurate Version Of Fermi's Old Beta Decay Model Confirming The Conserved Vector Current Cvc Hypothesis Of Richard Feynman And Murray Gell-Mann On The Road To The Standard Model. <br/> <br/> Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1979PH-2Oxford U.K.: Pergamon Press 1979. Classic comprehensive corrected edition of this two-part set of volume 4 Landau & Lifshitz series contains detailed topics covering photons; bosons; fermions; particles in an external field; radiation; scattering of radiation; scattering matrix; invariant perturbation theory; interaction of electrons and photons; exact propagators and vertex parts; radiative corrections; asymptotic formulae of quantum electrodynamics; dynamic symmetry of hadrons; electrodynamics of hadrons; weak interactions; etc. 616 pgs. collectively. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. ISBN for Part 2 is 0080171753. Corrected Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
PH-342Reading MA.: Addison Wesley/ Pergamon Press 1964. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics covering elastic theory of dislocations; motion of dislocations glide; vacancies and interstitial atoms; dislocation climb; imperfect dislocations; crystal growth; dislocation networks; annealing polygonization recrystallization grain boundaries; general properties of dislocations; interactions of dislocations with other defects; formation and motion of impurity clouds; interaction of dislocations with other perturbations of the crystal lattice; creep; cleavage dislocations; etc. 491 pp. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Addison Wesley/ Pergamon Press Hardcover
1948060194New York: Mcgraw-Hill 1948. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4 Pp And 2 Pp Covers Printed On One Sheet. Signed By Baardeen And Dated In 1977. <br/> <br/> Mcgraw-Hill paperback
1988ZB253536American Institute of Physics 1988. volumes 15-24 1988-1997 mostly original paper wrappers ex library good price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. American Institute of Physics unknown
1893055105Clarendon Press Oxford 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Drawings Photographs. Xvi 578 2 Pp And 8 Pp Catalogs At End. First Edition Probable Second Issue With 4 Errata Printed At End Of Contents Rather Than On An Inserted Slip. Green Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind. Black Endpapers. Slight Wear Near Fine And Scarce Thus Gilt Bright Cloth Clean And Unfaded No Marks; Half Title Present <br/> <br/> Clarendon Press, Oxford hardcover
1962041152New York / London: Academic Press 1962. First Edition . Green Cloth. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 334 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt Important Papers Charting The Early Development Of Geometrodynamics Wheeler's Preferred Term For The Field Of General Relativity. Fine. Ownership Signature At Berkeley On Front Free Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Academic Press hardcover
1718e8265London: J. Sennex at the Globe in Salisbury-Court and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row. G : in Good condition. Rebound with new eps. Some light damp staining and some annotations and corrections in pencil and ink. 1718. First Edition in English. Modern Pannelled calf. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xxiii errata 290pp ii. 7 folding plates. '.Divided into Five Parts and Translated Into English. Together with a Little Treatise of the Same Author Giving Practical Rules for Fountains or Jets d'Eau.' End paper note states 'Cornelius Varley's copy and C. Varley signature in pencil at top edge of title page. . J. Sennex at the Globe in Salisbury-Court, and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row unknown
1989PH-117Redwood City CA.: Addison-Wesley 1989. Classic text presents a detailed monograph covering calculations and techniques of perturbative quantum chromodynamics including perturbative predictions for electron-positron annihilations; deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering; large-mass muon pair production in hadron-hadron collisions; renormalization and the running coupling constant in QCD; production of particles and jets in hadron-hadron collisions; upsilon decay; pion form factor; s-matrix formulas; etc. 366 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Addison-Wesley Hardcover
1970054519The New American Library / World Publishing 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xx 155 Pp. Gray Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. First Edition Stated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Signed By Rabi On Front Endpaper. If Anyone Has Another Idea -Ethics- For The Center Of Culture Per Se Please Speak Up Very Loudly. Per Wikipedia Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898 - 1988 Was An American Physicist Who Won The Nobel Prize In Physics In 1944 For His Discovery Of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Which Is Used In Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He Was Also One Of The First Scientists In The United States To Work On The Cavity Magnetron Which Is Used In Microwave Radar And Microwave Ovens. During World War Ii He Worked On Radar At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Mit Radiation Laboratory Radlab And On The Manhattan Project. After The War He Served On The General Advisory Committee Gac Of The Atomic Energy Commission And Was Chairman From 1952 To 1956. He Also Served On The Science Advisory Committees Sacs Of The Office Of Defense Mobilization And The Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory And Was Science Advisor To President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He Was Involved With The Establishment Of The Brookhaven National Laboratory In 1946 And Later As United States Delegate To Unesco With The Creation Of Cern In 1952. When Columbia Created The Rank Of University Professor In 1964 Rabi Was The First To Receive That Position. A Special Chair Was Named After Him In 1985. He Retired From Teaching In 1967 But Remained Active In The Department And Held The Title Of University Professor Emeritus And Special Lecturer Until His Death. <br/> <br/> The New American Library / World Publishing hardcover
70046Leipzig B.G. Teubner 1912. . Gebrauchsmusterschutz 477833 42 n. - BEIGABE: In Fotokopie der "Leitfaden zur mathematischen Experimentiermappe" 48 S. mit zahlr. Illustr. Interimsbroschur. - Zusammenstellung von Modellvorlagen und Experimentbeschreibungen zur Erlernung der Geometrie in Kombination mit der Verbesserung der "Handfertigkeit" eine Lehrmethode die zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in Skandinavien und den USA bereits angewendet wurde in Deutschland aber noch nicht üblich war. Der in Altona und Berlin als Lehrer tätige Gustav Noodt 1856-1917 hatte einige Modelle wie das fertig beiliegende "Kreisberührungsmodell" den "Parallelen-Apparat" oder das "Kreismittelpunktsmodell" selbst erfunden und in die Gebrauchsmusterrolle des Kaiserlichen Patentamtes eintragen lassen. - Die Metall-Ösen dienen als Verbindungselemente für die losen Teile mancher Modelle z. B. Kreiswinkelmodell Anleitung S. 18 ff. Mit dabei ein 5 cm langer am Ende verjüngter Metallstift zum Anbringen bzw. Einpressen der Ösen in die Pappe. - Papp-Schuber gebräunt etwas fleckig stärker bestoßen u. mit kleinem Laschenabriß aber insgesamt intakt. Das Kreisberührungsmodell etwas stockfleckig sonst innen alles gut und sauber; einige Metall-Ösen verbogen evtl. fehlt 1 farbiger Blanko-Karton. - Selten Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, [1912]. unknown
1932010687Warszawa: Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej 1932. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition of Stefan Banach's most important work foundational in functional analysis which introduced the concept of normed linear spaces which are now known as Banach spaces. This work transformed functional analysis into a distinct field of mathematics. The concept of Banach spaces and the later development of Hilbert spaces a specific type of Banach space are fundamental to the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics.Wikipedia Very Good Plus copy in the original printed wrappers the text in French but printed in Poland. The spine and edges of the wrappers sunned to brown else clean tight and unmarked internally. vii 254 pp. . Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej Paperback
1999043092Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Inc 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xxi 125 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First And Only Printing Hardcover Issiue. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Text Evolved From Lectures To An Honors Course For Undergraduates. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket; Inscribed By Sachs And Dated March 18 1999. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> World Scientific Publishing Co Inc hardcover
1970059800North-Holland Pub Co 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Xvi 220 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Printing With Number Line Ending In "1" North-Holland Publisher Not The Springer Reprint. Fine Bookplate Of Dutch-American Physicist Jan Korrringa Who Was A Student Of Ehrenfest. Dust Jacket With Wear Short Tear At Top Of Front Panel Minor Losses At Edges. With A Photogra;H Of A Portrait Of Ehrenfest Signed By Ehrenfest In The Original But Not On This Copy. Per Wikipedia Paul Ehrenfest 1880 - 1933 Was An Austrian Theoretical Physicist Who Made Major Contributions To Statistical Mechanics And Its Relation To Quantum Mechanics. He Majored In Chemistry At The Vienna Institute Of Technology But Took Courses At The University Of Vienna In Particular From Ludwig Boltzmann On His Kinetic Theory Of Thermodynamics. These Lectures Had A Profound Influence. In 1903 He Met Dutch Physicist Hendrik Lorentz During A Short Visit To Leiden Netherlands. He Wrote His Dissertation On Die Bewegung Starrer Körper In Flüssigkeiten Und Die Mechanik Von Hertz The Motion Of Rigid Bodies In Fluids And The Mechanics Of Hertz And Obtained His Ph.D. On 23 June 1904 In Vienna Where He Stayed From 1904 To 1905. Because He Was Unwilling To Declare Belief In Any Religious Denomination He Could Not Apply For A Professorship And Therefore Had No Prospect Of Securing A Permanent Position.6 In 1912 Ehrenfest Toured German-Speaking Universities In The Hope Of A Position. He Visited Berlin Where He Saw Max Planck; Leipzig Where He Met His Old Friend German Mathematician Gustav Herglotz; Munich Where He Met Theoretical Physicist Arnold Sommerfeld; Zürich; And Vienna. In Prague He Met Albert Einstein For The First Time And They Remained Close Friends Thereafter. Einstein Recommended That Ehrenfest Succeed Him In His Position In Prague But The Plan Failed Since Ehrenfest Declared Himself An Atheist.78 Sommerfeld Offered Him A Position In Munich But Ehrenfest Received A Better Offer; At The Same Time There Was An Unexpected Turn Of Events: H. A. Lorentz Resigned His Position At The University Of Leiden And On His Advice Ehrenfest Was Appointed As His Successor. In October 1912 Ehrenfest Arrived In Leiden. To Stimulate Interaction And Exchange Among Physics Students Ehrenfest Organized A Discussion Group And A Study Association Called De Leidsche Flesch "The Leyden Jar". He Maintained Close Contact With Prominent Physicists In The Country And Abroad And Invited Them To Visit Leiden And Give Presentations In His Lecture Series. Among His Students Were Johannes Burgers Hendrik Kramers Dirk Coster George Uhlenbeck And Samuel Goudsmit Who Became Famous For Jointly Proposing The Concept Of Electron Spin Jan Tinbergen Arend Rutgers Hendrik Casimir Gerhard Dieke Dirk Struik And Gerard Kuiper. His Assistants Included Yuri Krutkov Viktor Trkal Adriaan Fokker Paul Epstein And Gregory Breit. Other Young Foreign Scientists Who Spent Extended Periods In His Laboratory Included Gunnar Nordström Enrico Fermi Igor Tamm Oskar Klein J. Robert Oppenheimer Walter Elsasser Ralph Kronig Werner Heisenberg Paul Dirac And David Dennison.Ehrenfest's Most Important Contribution From 1912 To 1933 Is The Theory Of Adiabatic Invariants A Concept Derived From Classical Mechanics That Can Serve To Refine Certain Methods Of Niels Bohr's Model Of The Atom And Also Creates An Association Between Atomic Mechanics And Statistical Mechanics. He Made Major Contributions To Quantum Physics Including The Theory Of Phase Transitions And The Ehrenfest Theorem Which States That Expectation Values Of A Quantum System Conform To Classical Mechanics. His Name Is Also Given To The Ehrenfest Paradox An Apparent Paradox Of Relativity To The Ehrenfest Model And To Ehrenfest Time The Time Characterizing The Difference Of Quantum Dynamics For Observables From Classical Dynamics. Ehrenfest Was Also Interested In Developing Mathematical Theories For Economics. His Student Jan Tinbergen Received A Nobel Prize In Economics. <br/> <br/> North-Holland Pub Co hardcover
1978059860New York: Alfred A Knopf 1978. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine DJ. Hardcover. First Edition Stated Fine In Near Fine Dj Priced $15.95 3.4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel With Associated Crease. Signed By Daniel Kevles On Front Endpaper. No Other Names Or Marks. Per Wikipedia Daniel J. Kevles Born 2 March 1939 In Philadelphia Pennsylvania Is An American Historian Of Science Best Known For His Books On American Physics And Eugenics And For A Wide-Ranging Body Of Scholarship On Science And Technology In Modern Societies. He Is Stanley Woodward Professor Of History Emeritus At Yale University And J. O. And Juliette Koepfli Professor Of The Humanities Emeritus At The California Institute Of Technology. Kevles' Research Has Focused Primarily On The History Of Science In America And The Interactions Between Science And Society. A Central Theme In Much Of His Work Has Been The Tension Between Elite Science And The Norms Of Democratic Control. He Is Best Known For His Accessible And Original Interpretative Histories Of Physics And Eugenics And For An Extensive Body Of Scholarship That Ranges Widely Across The Histories Of The Physical Sciences Life Sciences And Technology. His Books Include The Physicists 197814 A History Of The American Physics Community In The Name Of Eugenics 1985 Currently The Standard Text On The History Of Eugenics In The United States And Britain15 And The Baltimore Case 199816 A Study Of Accusations Of Scientific Fraud. He Is Also A Co-Author Of The Textbook Inventing America: A History Of The United States 2002; 2Nd Edition 200617 And Co-Editor With Leroy Hood Of The Code Of Codes 199218 A Set Of Essays That Explore Scientific And Social Issues Surrounding The Human Genome Project. Recently He Has Been Working On A History Of The Uses Of Intellectual Property In Living Organisms From The Eighteenth Century To The Present19 And A Co-Authored History Of The National Academy Of Sciencthroughout His Career Kevles Has Brought The History Of Science And Technology To A Broad Audience Through His Contributions To General Readership Publications. These Have Included Pieces In The New Yorker21 The New York Times22 The New York Review Of Books23 Times Literary Supplement24 Scientific American25 And The Huffington Post26 Among Others. The Serialized Version Of His Book In The Name Of Eugenics Published In The New Yorker In 1984 Received The 1985 Page One Award For Excellence In Science Reporting <br/> <br/> Alfred A Knopf hardcover
