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Electricity and Magnetism – Matveev

We now come to a long awaited book by A. N. Matveev. Sometime back we had seen his Mechanics and Theory of Relativity. In this post we will see Electricity and Magnetism. This book is a part of 5 book … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals of The Theory of Electricity – Tamm

Fundamentals of the Theory of Electricity is a classical course in electrodynamics written by Igor E. Tamm (1895-1971), one of the most outstanding and well-known Soviet physicists. In this post we will see a book titled Fundamentals of The Theory … Continue reading →

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Electrodynamics – Novozhilov, Yappa

In this post we will see Electrodynamics by Yu. V. Novozhilov and Yu. A. Yappa. From the Preface: This book originated from our experience in teaching electrodynamics as part of a series of lectures in theoretical physics. The lectures were … Continue reading →

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Mirtitles in 2013

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 510,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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The Root System of Fruit Plants – Kolesnikov

In this post we will see a book titled The Root System of Fruit Plants by V. Kolesnikov. About the book: The Root System of Fruit Plants provides the horticulturist with the information he needs to be able to choose an … Continue reading →

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Mechanics and Theory of Relativity – Matveev

In this post we will see a book by A. N. Matveev titled Mechanics and Theory of Relativity. About the book: This is the first volume (second Russian edition) of a course on general physics (the second, third and fourth … Continue reading →

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Mir Titles: How to Help?

How you can contribute? Quite often visitors and patrons of mirtitles.org ask us how can the site be helped. This post (an extended version of the very first post that was made) will chalk outlines where the help is needed. … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors – Klimov

In this post we will see Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors by A. Klimov. About the book: The book covers different aspects of nuclear physics. In chapters 1 to 4 basics of nuclear physics and interactions of elementary particles are … Continue reading →

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Something Called Nothing – Podolny

The present book relates the history of views, the development of ideas, often ones that are still in the making. In this post we will see a book about nothing! The curios title of the book is Something Called Nothing … Continue reading →

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Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations – Elsgolts

In this post we will see the book Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations by L. Elsgolts. About the book: This text is meant for students of higher schools and deals with the most important sections of mathematics-differential equations … Continue reading →

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