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Little Mathematics Library – Images of Geometric Solids

Posted on April 18, 2012 by damitr

We now come to another title in the Little Mathematics Library, this one is titled Images of Geometric Solids by N. M. Beskin Drawing a plane figure is not geometrically difficult because the image drawn is either an exact copy of … Continue reading →

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Little Mathematics Library – Differentiation Explained

Posted on April 18, 2012 by damitr

We begin with the Little Mathematics Library series once again, after a long break.  We first see the book titled Differentiation Explained by V. G. Boltyansky (Boltyanskii). The author in the Preface says: High school students, especially those interested in … Continue reading →

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Higher Maths for Beginners – Zeldovich, Yaglom

Posted on April 17, 2012 by damitr

The book in this post is one of the best introductory books for Higher Mathematics and it has been written by two exceptionally talented people, namely, Yakov B. Zeldovich and Issak M. Yaglom. Just visit the wikipedia pages to see … Continue reading →

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Did You Say Mathematics?

Posted on April 16, 2012 by damitr

We have seen one book by Yakov Khurgin previously in the Science for Everyone series named Yes, No  Or Maybe . Now we come to another book by him with the title Did You Say Mathematics? The back cover of … Continue reading →

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Updates…

Posted on April 16, 2012 by damitr

The links for following books have been reloaded: Lobachevskian Geometry Method of Successive Approximations Post’s Machine Proof In Geometry Stereographic Projection The Method of Mathematical Induction Pascal’s Triangle Let’s Play Geometry Let me know if they are working okay. Password, if … Continue reading →

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ABC of Plasma Physics

Posted on April 5, 2012 by damitr

We now come to another series of books the ABC of … series. One of the first books that I had read of this series was ABC of Quantum Mechanics, which is lost somewhere. In this post we see A … Continue reading →

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Magnetism of Elementary Particles – S. V. Vonsovsky

Posted on March 15, 2012 by damitr

After last book, we come to another book on the topic of magnetism. But this is not of the popular science kind as most of the books that we have seen so far, this is for the experts in the … Continue reading →

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Three Thousand Years of Magnets – V. P. Kartsev

Posted on March 14, 2012 by damitr

We now come to a wonderful book titled Three Thousand Years of Magnets by V. P. Kartsev. The introduction of the book says: The universe is magnetic, from its vast, distant nebulae right down to elementary particles, and man is … Continue reading →

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Updates…

Posted on March 13, 2012 by damitr

Have upped Tarasov’s Calculus. The link in the original post has also been updated. Also Landau and Rumer’s What is The Theory of Relativity has been re-upped.  

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Science for Everyone – The Grand Biological Clock

Posted on March 12, 2012 by damitr

So out of our remaining posts for Science for Everyone, as mentioned in Taking Stock we now come to The Grand Biological Clock by V. M. Dilman. Many, many thanks to gnv64 for making this possible. From  the back cover: … Continue reading →

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