Category Archives: books

Problems in Physics – Kapitza

Posted on June 12, 2013 by damitr

This one I have been searching for a while. I had read reference to this work in some book (which I don’t remember now),  and ever since was trying to find it. Luckily today I landed on a page (Edit: … Continue reading →

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This Chancy, Chancy, Chancy World – Rastrigin

Posted on June 7, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see This Chancy, Chancy, Chancy World By Leonard Rastrigin. Have you ever sat down and thought about how often chance affects your life? If you have, then you probably realize that chance literally hits us … Continue reading →

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Sounds We Cannot Hear – Kudryavtsev

Posted on June 6, 2013 by damitr
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When Daddy Was a Little Boy – Raskin

Posted on June 5, 2013 by desperadomar

We now come to childrens book titled When Daddy Was A Little Boy by Alexander Raskin. This is a book written by a father about stories he told his daughter Sasha, to cheer her up when she was sick. They … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Topology – Borisovich, Bliznyakov, Izrailevich, Fomenko

Posted on May 1, 2013 by The Mitr

We now come to two volume set on Introduction to Topology by Yu. Borisovich, N. Bliznyakov, Ya. Izrailevich, T. Fomenko. This is a two volume book set, which has 5 sections in all. It is based on lectures delivered by … Continue reading →

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In the Search for Beauty – Smilga

Posted on April 30, 2013 by The Mitr

In an earlier post we have seen a wonderful book on special relativity titled Relativity and Man by V. Smilga. In that post, it was pointed out another book by this wonderful author titled In theSearch for Beauty, which has … Continue reading →

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Origin And Development Of Life On Earth – Voitkevich

Posted on April 29, 2013 by The Mitr

After a long break in the Science for Everyone Series we come to one of the remaining titles in this series. This one is titled Origin and Development of Life on Earth by G. Voitkevich. This is a sort of … Continue reading →

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Krasnov – Aerodynamics 2

Posted on April 29, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see Aerodynamics 2 : Methods of Aerodynamic Calculations by N. F. Krasnov. In an earlier post we have seen Volume 1 of this book. Before beginning the second part, readers should be familiar with the theoretical fundamentals of … Continue reading →

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A Call for Covers…

Posted on February 4, 2013 by damitr

I would like all of you to contribute to our collection of covers of books. Many times it happens that the book is there, but the outer cover is missing. Most of the covers found on the internet are thumbnail … Continue reading →

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General Physics – Landau, Akhiezer, Lifshitz

Posted on February 3, 2013 by damitr

The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader with the principal phenomena and most important laws of physics. The authors have tried to make the book as compact as possible, including only what is essential and omitting what … Continue reading →

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