The Town In The Snuffbox and Old Father Frost – Odoyevsky

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see a book having two children’s stories The Town In The Snuffbox and Old Father Frost by Vladimir Odoyevsky.

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A contemporary of Pushkin and Gogol, the well-known Russian Prince Vladimir Odoyeusky (1804-1869) is the author of many works, including some extremely popular tales for children. Here are two of them, the delightful title story about Misha’s adventures with a musical snuff-box, and “Old Father Frost”, also highly entertaining and instructive.

 

The book is lavishly illustrated. The illustrations in the first story perhaps reminds one of Tim Burton’s imagery in his movies.

The book was published by Raduga in 1990. The amazing illustrations are by Alexander Koshkin and Natalia Polyanskaya.
PDF | OCR | Cover | 22.6 MB | 48 pp.
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Semiconductors: Testing and Adjusting – Green, Shokalsky

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will look at the book Semiconductors: Testing and Adjusting by G. Green and A Shokalsky.

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About the book:

The book describes the working of many electronic devices and methods of testing them. Since the book was written in the early 70s, some of the technology presented in the book may be outdated.

 

The book was translated from the Russian by George Roberts and was first published by Mir in 1972.

PDF | OCR | Cover | Bookmarked | 210 pp. | 15 MB

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Measure, Lebesgue Integrals and Hilbert Space – Kolmogorov and Fomin

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Measure, Lebesgue Integrals and Hilbert Space by A. N. Kolmogorov and S. V. Fomin.

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About the book:

This publication is the second book. of the “Elements of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis,” the first book of which (“Metric and Normed Spaces”) appeared in 1954. In this second book the main role is played by measure theory and the Lebesgue integral. These concepts, in particular the concept of measure, are discussed with a sufficient degree of generality; however, for greater clarity we start with the concept of a Lebesgue measure for plane sets. If the reader so desires he can, having read §1, proceed immediately to Chapter II and then to the Lebesgue integral, taking as the measure, with respect to which the integral is being taken, the usual Lebesgue measure on the line or on the plane.

The theory of measure and of the Lebesgue integral as set forth in this book is based on lectures by A.N. Kolmogorov given by him repeatedly in the Mechanics-Mathematics Faculty of the Moscow State University. The final preparation of the text for publication was carried out by S. V. Fomin.

The two books correspond to the program of the course “Analysis III” which was given for the mathematics students by A. N. Kolmogorov. At the end of this volume the reader will find corrections pertaining to the text of the first volume.

PDF | 2.1 MB | OCR | Cover | Bookmarked | 159 pp.

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Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics

Posted on April 19, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics. Many interesting articles are present in the book which would interest a physicist as well as students of history and philosophy of science.

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About the book:

In 1979 the scientists of the world marked the centenary of Albert Einstein. This book, written by prominent Soviet specialists in physics and philosophy, purports to repeal Einstein’s influence on the modern scientific view of the world and analyses the most important philosophical problems of 20th century physics. The focus is on the problems of the special and general theory of relativity. Such as the development of the concepts of time and space in relativistic physics, their interconnection, the dimensionality of physical space, and complementarity of physics and geometry. The book deals with Einstein’s views of the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics and his search for a unified field theory. Special consideration is given to the philosophical problems of relativistic cosmology and its role in the description of the time- space structure of the universe.

The book was first published by Progress Publishers in 1983 and was translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin. The book was designed by Sergei Zeitsev.

PDF | Bookmarked | Cover | 520 pp. | OCR | 17.5 MB

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Traces of Bygone Biospheres – Lapo

Posted on April 18, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Traces of Bygone Biospheres by A. V. Lapo. The book is an introduction to the ideas of the biosphere which were first proposed by remarkable Soviet scientist V. I. Vernadsky.  The book explores his ideas and their long-lasting influence on a variety of disciplines.

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About the book from the Preface:

A teaching of the biosphere has developed – a science which stands in its own right and cannot be reduced either to geography or biology, but makes use of their advances and results, and, in turn, influences the development of geology. The founder of this science was the brilliant Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945).

This book will describe the biosphere and the role of life in geological processes; reading it, you will leam about the scientists who dealt with these problems and, above all about V. I. Vernadsky himself. His name is bound up with the problems treated in this book, just as the name of Albert Einstein is bound up with the theory of relativity. The highest moral qualities of Vernadsky and Einstein also bring them together. And, evidently, it is not by chance that the greatest scientific discoveries of the twentieth century were made by such irreproachable personalities as Vernadsky and Einstein. “To all who knew him, even slightly, he will remain an ideal of a man of high purpose and purity of character and a scientist who never lost his interest in the search for knowledge” -this is what one of Vernadsky’s contemporaries wrote about him.

About the author (from the backcover):

Andrey Vitalyevich Lapo, Cand. Sci. (Min.), a geologist and writer on geology, now with the All-Union Geological Institute in Leningrad, is a member of the Soviet Botanical and Paleontological Societies. His interests include substance analysis of fossil fuels, and the role of life in geological processes. He is one of the originators of the phyteral analysis of fossil fuels. Lapo authored about 50 publications and co-authored Petrographic Types of Coals of the USSR (Ed. A. A. Lyuber) (USSR: Nedra) and Rational Complex of Petrographic and Chemical Methods of Investigations of Coals and Combustible Shales (USSR: Nedra).

The book was translated from the Russian by V. Purto and was first published by Mir in 1982. This book was also reprinted in the Science for Everyone series. The current scan is for the 1982 book and not the SFE series.

PDF | OCR | Cover | Bookmarked | 228 pp. | 12 MB

The Internet Archive link for the book. and here

Note: The scanning of the book was an adventure in itself. The pages of the book and its spine were very brittle. The pages were so brittle that just turning the pages separated them from the spine. At end of the scan, the book was almost separated into individual pages. The physical copy of the book was almost destroyed in the scanning process and I hope the creation of the electronic copy justifies it.

The white images on the cover are from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature). Art Forms of Nature is an amazing book, if you have not seen it you must. You may explore these aesthetic and amazing drawings at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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The Decomposition of Figures Into Smaller Parts – Boltyanskii and Gohberg

Posted on April 14, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book The Decomposition of Figures Into Smaller Parts by V. G. Boltyanskii and I. T. Gohberg. The book is part of the Popular Lectures in Mathematics Series.

About the book:

This book is devoted to some interrelated problems of a new, rapidly developing branch of mathematics called combinatorial geometry. Common to all the problems examined here is the notion of “ cutting” a geometric figure into several “smaller pieces.” There are several different criteria for what constitutes a “ smaller piece” ; hence this book necessarily treats several different problems. All the theorems proved here are very recent; the oldest of them was proved by the Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk about forty years ago. This theorem of Borsuk is the core around which all of the subsequent exposition unfolds. The most recent theorem is barely a year old.

The topics treated in this book are well within the grasp of bright and interested high school students. At the same time, the book intro­ duces the reader to a number of the unsolved problems of geometry.

This family of problems is the subject of another book by the same authors. Theorems and Problems in Combinatorial Geometry (Nauka, 1965). That book, however, deals chiefly with problems of three- dimensional and higher-dimensional spaces. The present book concerns itself only with problems of plane geometry, and can thus be used by high school mathematics clubs. Theorems and Problems in Combinatorial Geometry will be useful, however, to readers interested in continuing further.

The remarks at the end of the book are intended for the more advanced reader.

The book is part of the series Popular Lectures in Mathematics.

PDF | OCR | Bookmarked | 2.7 MB | 78 pages

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Elements Of Applied Mathematics – Zeldovich, Myskis

Posted on April 11, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Elements Of Applied Mathematics by Ya. B. Zeldovich and A. D. Myskis.

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This book is not a textbook in the ordinary sense of the word but rather a reader in the mathematical sciences. Using simple examples taken from physics and a variety of mathematical problems, we have tried to introduce the reader to a broad range of ideas and methods that are found in present-day applications of mathematics to physics, engineering and other fields. Some of these ideas and methods (such as the use of the delta function, the principle of superposition, obtaining asymptotic expressions, etc.) have not been sufficiently discussed in the ordinary run of mathematics textbooks for non-mathematicians, and so this text can serve as a supplement to such textbooks. Our aim has been to elucidate the basic ideas of mathematical methods and the general laws of the phenomena at hand. Formal proofs, exceptions and complicating factors have for the most part been dropped. Instead we have strived in certain places to go deeper into the physical picture of the processes.

 

The book was first published by Mir in 1976 and was translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky.

PDF | 666 pages | Cover | OCR

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Shcholkin – Physics of the Microworld

Posted on April 8, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book titled Physics of the Microworld by K. I. Shcholkin. The book is an introduction to many facets of the quantum phenomena, both basic and advanced. The book is essentially a collection of a variety of essays on the theme of the quantum physics.

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About the book

The back cover of the book describes the books as:

In these sketches, the late K. I. SHCHOLKIN, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, gives a popular account of the structure of the atoms and atomic nuclei of matter and anti­ matter, of nuclear forces and the structure of nucleons. His book tells about strong and weak interactions, parity and its non-conservation, and vacuum polarization. Models of nuclei, nuclear fission, and fusion reactions are described, with basic information on elementary particles, and the latest technical advances of quantum physics (maser amplifiers, hydrogen-atom radiation, Mossbauer effect, etc.). There are also articles devoted to strange particles like K-mesons.

The book is in a clear and readable manner, and is intended for sixth-formers and general non-technical readers who are interested in the latest developments in nuclear and atomic physics, i.e. the physics of the microworld.

The book has had three editions in Russian and has been translated into Spanish.

There is an interesting essay on Negative absolute temperatures (p. 174)!

The book was first published by Mir in 1974 and was translated from the Russian by Michael Zimmerman.

PDF | Cover | OCR | 300 dpi (upscaled to 600 dpi) | Bookmarked | 9.8 MB

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Entertaining Electronics – E. Sedov

Posted on April 2, 2018 by The Mitr

Posting after a long time! Hopefully, this run will continue through this summer and we will see new titles every few days.

In this post, we will see the much-awaited book by E. Sedov Entertaining Electronics. The book is an amazing introduction to electronics. Though some of the technology has changed since the time the book was published (almost no vacuum tubes now), the book nonetheless remains a classic. The way it explains many physical aspects of the variety of ideas in connection with electronics is commendable. The historical origin of many ideas used in the book is traced. The book touches upon various aspects of solid-state physics, electromagnetism, fields, waves, semiconductors, among other things. It provides a physically intuitive understanding of the topics considered.

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The inside cover describes the book as such:

An unusual book in form and content, demonstrating that electronics can be fun. Acquaints the reader with the history and development of this important branch of modern science and technology since the discovery of radio. Written with humour and simplicity. Should be in every school library. The author is a graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute and an experienced popularizer of science.

The book has some amazing line drawings which describe the physical phenomena very well. Unfortunately, the text does not provide the name of the artist who drew these illustrations.

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The book was translated from the Russian by Eugene Felgenhauer and was first published in 1973. The current scan is for the third reprint in 1984.

PDF | OCR | Bookmarked | 359 pp. | Cover | 12.2 MB | 300 dpi (upscaled to 600)

Link on the Internet Archive. and here

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Mirtiles at The Internet Archive

Posted on June 29, 2017 by The Mitr

In recent past we have added many of the books on The Internet Archive. The process is not complete but many have been added.

In case the old links are broken you might find them there:

https://archive.org/details/@mirtitles

Happy Reading 🙂

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