The Earth in the Universe – Fedynskii (Ed.)

Posted on April 22, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book The Earth In The Universe edited by V. V. Fedynskii.

About the book:

The space age was initiated on 4 October 1957, when the first Soviet
artificial satellite was launched. Then, between 1961 and 1963, Gagarin,
Titov, Nikolaev, Popovich, Bykovskii, and Tereshkova made their heroic
entering into space. As a consequence, the science of the Earth is now
going into a new phase of reappraisal and vigorous development. The
Earth viewed from interplanetary space, the application of the advances in
physics and modern technology to the study of the Earth’s deep interior and
the remote fringes of the terrestrial atmosphere, the incorporation of new
disciplines into the science of our planet — all these call for a fresh approach
to many seemingly familiar phenomena.

This book presents a series of articles, covering a broad range of
subjects, by a group of Soviet scientists writing on some of the problems
of modern science, such as the structure of matter, the nature of physical
fields, the formation and evolution of the Earth and the universe, solar
activity and the Earth, and the interaction between the Earth’s biosphere
and physical fields. Some facts from the history of science which are
related to the “cosmization” of natural science (the emergence of science
into the reaches of outer space) are also presented. Many of the ideas
expressed in the articles of this collection draw upon the works of
great Russian scientists of the past, such as K. E. Tsiolkovskii and
V.I. Vernadskii, whose topical interest has been revived with the onset of
the space age.

The cheif editor of the book was V. V. Fedynskii, and the editorial board was comprised of I. Ya. Ballakh, A. L. Chizhevskii, V. V. Piotrovskii, and N. I. Taranov.

 

The book was translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations in
1968. The book was published for NASA as a technical translation.

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Fundamentals of Physics – Ivanov

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Fundamentals of Physics by B. N. Ivanov.

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About the book:

The book being of­fered by the author differs from other existing books on the subject in its nontraditional approach to the course of phys­ics. The principle underlying the preparation of this course can be summarized as follows:  “From atom to matter”.

What prompted the author to adopt this approach? In­deed, the creation of new materials with unusual mechani­cal, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties requires a microscopic approach to the problem and a clear understanding of the practical significance of the approach “from atom to matter”. This means that the scientists and industrial workers engaged in fields like physical materials science, nuclear and semiconductor engineering, laser
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This book is intended for those who wish to acquire a deeper knowledge of physical phenomena. It can be used by students of physics and mathematical schools, as well as by those who have finished school and are engaged in self- education. A good deal of the material may be useful to teachers delivering lectures on various topics of physics.

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This is not a textbook, but rather a helpbook that should be used in conjunction with the standard textbooks. Nor is the book intended for a light reading; you have to use a pen and paper, think, analyze, and even compute whenever it is necessary. We shall describe physics here in the way re­ searchers understand it today.

Physics essentially deals with the fundamental laws of nature. The progress being made at present in all branches of natural science is due, as a rule, to the introduction of physical concepts and techniques in them. This is besides the fact that a knowledge of physical sciences is essential for new industrial ventures lying at the root of technical progress. Physics is fast becoming an important element in the modern civilization.

The book was published by Mir in 1989 and was translated from the Russian by R. S. Wadhwa.

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The book is in print in India by CBS publishers.

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The Riddle Of The Self – Mikhailov

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book The Riddle Of The Self by F. T. Mikhailov.

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The question of consciousness, of its relation to being cannot in principle be reduced to a particular scientific problem of the correlation of mental and physiological processes or to a problem of the reception, processing and production of information. The essence of this problem is not what happens under my skull when I calculate the trajectory of a flight to the stars, but what in philosophy is called the question of the identity of thought and being. How is it possible that a person can mentally chart the road to the stars? How and why can he, in his thoughts, conceive of the existence of the Universe? How can the infinity of time and space be contained in the in­stant of their realisation in consciousness? This is the key question of the human ability to set goals. And unless one knows one’s way through the two thousand years history of solutions to this question, one will have little chance of even framing a correct approach to any partic­ular problem of the relation between mind and brain.
That is why I have called this book The Riddle of the Self. By suggesting that the Self, the Ego presents a rid­dle I imply that there may be many different ways of tackling it. This book is not a calm and consistent academic expo­sition of compiled knowledge. It is more like a not very good transcript of a heated debate. And it is not in itself the answer to the riddle, but a discussion of how the prob­lem should be stated. It is about the method that should be used in the search.

The book was published by Progress in 1980 and was translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish. The book was designed by Vadim Kuleshov.

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Albert Einstein’s Philosophical views and the Theory of Relativity – Gribanov

Posted on April 21, 2018 by The Mitr

In this post, we will see the book Albert Einstein’s Philosophical Views and the Theory of Relativity by D. P. Gribanov. This book aims to bring out the place and role of philo­sophical science in the creation of the theory of relativity.

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About the book:

This book presents the first integral treatment of the philosophical views of Albert Einstein and their influence on the origin and inter­pretation of the theory of relati­vity. It brings out the specific features of the philosophical com­ prehension of the theory of relativity m the world and Soviet literature, and analyses the influence of the new relativistic physical ideas in enriching and developing the tradi­tional philosophical categories of matter, space, time, and motion.

The book was first published by Progress Publishers in 1987 and was translated from the Russian by H. Campbell Creighton. The book was designed by Vyacheslav Serebryakov.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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