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Space Adventures From Your Home – Rabiza

In this post we will see a children’s book on experiments on space travel titled Space Adventures in Your Home by F. Rabiza Space Adventures in Your Home will help you perform experiments on your own. Of course, this book … Continue reading

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This Chancy, Chancy, Chancy World – Rastrigin

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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Introduction to Topology – Borisovich, Bliznyakov, Izrailevich, Fomenko

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

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

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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Problems in Higher Algebra – Faddeev, Sominsky

In this post we will see Problems in Higher Algebra – Faddeev, Sominsky   This book of problems in higher algebra grew out of a course of instruction at the Leningrad State University and the Herzen Pedagogical Institute. It is designed … Continue reading

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Problems and Exercises in the Calculus of Variations – Krasnov, Makarenko, Kiselev

In this post we will see Problems and Exercises in the Calculus of Variations by M. L. Krasnov, G. I. Makarenko, A. I. Kiselev . The calculus of variations is one of the most important divisions of classical mathematical analysis … Continue reading

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Gantmacher – Lectures in Analytical Mechanics

We now come to Lectures on Analytical Mechanics by F. Gantmacher. The course of analytical mechanics is a foundation supporting such   divisions of theoretical physics as quantum mechanics, the special   and general theories of relativity, and so forth. … Continue reading

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Bugrov, Nikolsky – Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry

  We now come to Fundamentals Of Linear Algebra And Analytical Geometry by Ya. S. Bugrov, S. M. Nikolsky. The present book is the first part of our three-part textbook Higher-Mathematics. We deal here with the fundamentals of the theory … Continue reading

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Gusev, Litvinenko, Mordkovich – Solving Problems in Geometry

In this post, we will see the book  Solving Problems in Geometry by V. Gusev, V. Litvinenko, A. Mordkovich. This book is intended for students at pedagogical (teacher training) institutes majoring in mathematics or in mathematics and physics. It has … Continue reading

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