700,000 + and counting…

Posted on October 26, 2013 by The Mitr

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We have crossed the 700,000 mark in the number of visits to our blog!

Thanks to all those who have supported and encouraged.

Some forthcoming titles:

A Course of Differential Geometry and Topology – Mishchenko, Fomenko
Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations – Elsgolts
Electricity and Magnetism – Matveev
Electrodynamics – Novozhilov, Yappa
Fundamentals of The Theory of Electricity – Tamm
General Methods for Solving Physics Problems – Belikov
Generalized Functions in Mathematical Physics – Vladimirov
Introduction to Semiconductor Theory – Anselm
Lectures on the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable – Sidorov, Fedoryuk, Shabunin
Mechanics and Theory of Relativity – Matveev
Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactors – Klimov
Partial Differential Equations – Mikhailov
Plasma Physics – Kadomtsev (Ed.)
Problems and Exercises in Integral Equations – Krasnov, Kiselev, Makarenko
Problems in Differential Geometry and Topology – Mishchenko, Solovyev, Fomenko
Problems in Higher Mathematics – Minorsky
Problems of Mathematical Physics – Lebedev, Skalskaya, Uflyand
Selected Problems on Physics – Myasnikov, Osanova
Semiconductors: Testing and Adjusting – Green, Shokalsky
Senior Physics 1 – Kikoin, Kikoin
Something Called Noting – Podolny
The Root System of Fruit Plant – Kolesnikov
The Theory of Functions of A Complex Variable – Sveshnikov, Tikhonov
Theory of Elasticity – Filoneko, Borodich
Worked Problems in Applied Mathematics – Lebedev

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Radio Receiver Theory – Chistyakov

Posted on October 25, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see the book Radio Receiver Theory by N. Buka, A. Falko and N. Chistyakov, which was edited by N. I. Chistyakov.

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About the Book:

This book is a general course on radio receivers as taught in the Soviet Union to all students majoring in radio communications and broadcasting. Those who plan to specialize in radio engineering take an additional course concerned with radio receiver design and operation and based on the present course. For this reason, this book is primarily concerned with the principles underlying radio reception and radio receiver theory and, does not go into circuit and component details.

The authors have widely drawn on related subjects, such as the theory of linear and nonlinear circuits and electron devices, the theory of telecommunications, etc., presumably already taken by the reader as part of his studies.

This book was translated from the Russian by Boris V. Kuznetsov. The book was first published by Mir Publishers in 1990, perhaps making it one of the last ones published by them.

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DJVU | Cover | OCR | 376 Pages |

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Problems in Linear Algebra – Proskuryakov

Posted on October 24, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see Problems in Linear Algebra by I. V. Proskuryakov.

From the Preface:

In preparing this book of problems the author attempted firstly, to give a sufficient number of exercises for developing skills in the solution of typical problems (for example, the computing of determinants with numerical elements, the solution of systems of linear equations with numerical coefficients, and the like), secondly, to provide problems that will help to clarify basic concepts and their interrelations (for example, the connection between the properties of matrices and those of quadratic forms, on the one hand and those of linear transformations, on the other), thirdly to provide for a set of problems that might supplement the course of lectures and help to expand the mathematical horizon of the student (instances are the properties of the Pfaffian of the skew-symmetric determinant, the properties of associated matrices, and so on).

Compared with other problem book, this one has few new basic features. They include problems dealing with polynomial matrices (Sec. 13), linear transformations of affine and metric spaces (Secs. 18 and 19), and a supplement devoted to group rings, and fields. The problems of the supplement deal with the most elementary portions of the theory. Still and all, I think it can be used in pre-seminar discussions in the first and second years of study.

Starred numbers indicated problems that have been worked out or provided with hints. Solutions are given for a small number of problems.

The book was translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky and was first published by Mir Publishers in 1978.

Note: Though the file size is large (~ 26 M) the scan quality is really poor and is barely readable at times. 2-in-1 page scan with lot of warping. We tried to rectify this but were unable to do so. There is a weird colour hue (pink and blue) on many of the pages. If any one has access to a better copy please let us know.

Update 10 June 2025,

There is a completely new, very clean scan added now.

You can get the new scan  here. and here

All credits to Quantum AI.

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Low Temperature Physics – Borovik-Romanov

Posted on October 23, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see another book in the Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR – Physics series. The book is titled Low Temperature Physics and was edited by A. S. Borovik-Romanov. This book is a collection of articles on the topic of Low Temperature Physics or Cryogenics.

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About the book:

The authors of this collection are leading members of the staff at the Institute of Physics Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Three of them are Members of the Academy of Sciences.

The Institute was founded fifty years ago by the great contemporary physicist P. L. Kapitza. Academician L. D. Landau another giant of our time, also worked at the institute. The institute is world famous for research in low temperature physics.

This is a collection of six articles on the basic achievements of the Institute during the last few years. They include the discoveries of crystallization waves in helium and quantum magnetic breakdown. The collection is intended for scientists working in solid state physics and students interested in the latest advances of quantum physics of the condensed state.

The book was translated from the Russian by by Valerii Ilyushchenko and was first published by Mir Publishers in 1985.

PDF | 25.5 MB | Cover | 600 dpi | OCR

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In The Realm of Catalysis – Afanasiev, Zaikov

Posted on October 23, 2013 by damitr 
The phenomenon of changing the rate of a chemical reaction by 
the action of substances that do not alter their own chemical 
composition during this reaction is called catalysis.

In this post we will see the book In The Realm of Catalysis by V. A. Afanasiev and G. E. Zaikov. This book is part of Knowledge Series, some of titles we have seen earlier.

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About The Book:

In this popular narrative we have attempted to unveil some ‘secrets’ of catalytic reactions and to provide illustrations which are more closely related to our own field of research. We have placed special emphasis on the kinetic principles of catalysis. In the discussion of catalysis we considered it necessary to give the reader the basic principles of the theory of chemical catalysis and gave examples of catalysis in biology and in industry. It was not our aim to discuss all aspects of catalysis in chemistry and biology, and in this respect this book is far from being comprehensive.

The book was translated from the Russian by Alexander Rosinkin and was first published by Mir Publishers in 1979.

PDF | Cover | 600 dpi | Bookmarked | 7.4 MB |

(Some parameters of IA file may be different.)

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Vegetable Growing In Home Gardens – Kononkov, Kiran

Posted on October 21, 2013 by The Mitr

In this post we will see a book titled Vegetable Growing In Home Gardens of Tropical and Subtropical Areas by P. F. Konokov and V. Kiran.

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About the book:

As the descriptive name suggests the book covers in detail how to grow vegetables in your kitchen garden. …there are wide regions in the tropics where amateur vegetable gardening has its own specific features. To fill this gap we delivered courses of lectures between the years 1967 and 1986 on “Vegetable Cultivation and Production in the Tropics’ to the students of the Department of Agriculture at the P. Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University and published a textbook entitled “Vegetable Growing in Home Gardens of Tropical and Subtropical Areas” in 1984, which is now available in English from MIR Publishers.

The book was translated from the Russian by S. Sukharev and first published by Mir Publishers in 1988.

Thanks to Karen H. for this book.

PDF | OCR | 600 dpi | Bookmarked | Paginated | Cover | 12.3 MB
(Some parameters of IA file may be different)

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Straight Lines and Curves – Vasilyev, Gutenmacher

Posted on October 21, 2013 by The Mitr

In this post we will see a wonderful book on mathematics  titled Straight Lines and Curves by N. Vasilyev and V. Gutenmacher.

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About the book:

The authors N. B. Vasilyev and V. L. Gutenmacher are professors of mathematics at Moscow University. N. B. Vasilyev works in the field of the application of mathematical methods to biology, while V. I. Gutenmacher works in the field of mathematical methods used in the analysis of economic models.

In addition to their scientific work, they have both written many articles and books for high school and university students, and have worked with the Correspondence Mathematics School, which draws its pupils from all over the Soviet Union. They have worked on the committee organizing the “mathematical olympiad” problem competitions, which have greatly stimulated interest in mathematics among young people in the Soviet Union. They regularly contribute to the magazine “Kvant” (“Quantum”), a remarkable educational magazine devoted to mathematics and physics. This book contains a wealth of material usually found in geometry courses, and takes a new look at some of the usual theorems.

It deals with paths traced out by moving points, sets of points satisfying given geometrical conditions, and problems on finding maxima and minima. The book contains more than 200 problems which lead the reader towards some important areas of modern mathematics, and will interest a wide range of readers whether they be high school or university students, teachers, or simply lovers of mathematics.

The book was translated from the Russian by Anjan Kundu ans was published by Mir Publishers in 1980. It was also republished by Birkhauser in 2004. The link below is for the Mir Edition.

For those who really want to explore the world of mathematics, I would highly recommend using dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra. It is a Free and Open Source Software. Exploring the problems and exercises in this particular book (and of course otherwise also) with help of GeoGebra, has been for me, an exceptionally rewarding experience. This will reveal to you many subtle points and lead you to mathematical depths which you may have not thought of (or could not) diving into.

And I couldn’t but resist to add this quote:

… the feeling for beauty in mathematics is infectious.
It is caught not taught. It affects those with a flair for the subject.

– H. E. Huntley from The Divine Proportion

I hope you too get infected and infect others as well.

PDF | 11.3 MB | OCR | Cover | 600 dpi | Bookmarked | Paginated

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Science for Everyone – Learning About Chemistry

Posted on October 20, 2013 by The Mitr 
... the goal of this book is to make the material about
 chemistry and its problems more understandable.

In this post we come to yet another book in the Science for Everyone series. This one is titled Learning About Chemistry by G. B. Shul’pin.

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About the Book

This book is about chemistry, one of the most important sciences studied by humanity. It consists of a series of essays, each considering one field of chemistry, or a key notion, or an important compound. A feature of this book is that each essay is accompanied by descriptions of simple experiments, which can easily be performed at home. Some of the principles by which experimental data are processed, are considered, and the reader will see how the properties of unstudied substances can be predicted. Far from all branches of chemistry are covered within this small book. Nevertheless, the book touches upon many fields of chemistry, such as inorganic, organic, physical, colloid, biological, analytical and stereochemistry branches. The book will be of interest to senior pupils and chemistry teachers.

The book was translated from the Russian by Natalia Frosina and was published by Mir Publishers in 1989.

This is the comment that we received on an earlier post in SFE series.

A missing one is available now.
Science For Everyone – Learning About Chemistry – G B Shulpin
Link
1. Pls add OCR as I dont have OCR software
2. Thanks goes to Scantailor – Amazing free software without which it is 
impossible to create clean scan files. All , consider donating whatever 
little you can in its Sourceforge page.

All credits to Gordon Freeman a.k.a. Mir Fan for this book!

We did cropping and OCR of Gordon’s copy. You can get the OCRed book below.

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Science for Everyone – Ethology What Animals Do and Why?

Posted on October 8, 2013 by The Mitr 
Ethology is derived from two Greek words: "ethos", meaning 
character, or custom; and "logos", meaning study.

In this post we will see another book in the series Science For Everyone. This one is titled Ethology – What Animals Do and Why? by Igor Akimushkin.

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About the Book:

Igor Akimushkin is widely known in the USSR as a popularizer of biology. He is the author of over sixty science fiction books, including some for children, and many have been translated into the languages of peoples of the USSR and foreign languages. They describe the wonderful world of nature, awaken us to the marvels that exist just beyond the thresholds of our own homes, and explain the latest discoveries in biology. The series called “The Animal World” is particularly interesting having been awarded first Prize at a national contest held annually in the Soviet Union by the “Znaniye” society.

This book was translated from the Russian by Pyotr Aleinikov and first published by Mir Publishers in 1988.

This book was on the wanted list of Science for Everyone titles for quite some time.
Finally we got this comment from Sanjeev some days back:

Think it took me 6 hours today. 3 hours to scan (learnt that 
“custom scan area” works best on on my canon lide 90, since 
it does not have to traverse the whole length), then “Scantailor”,
which is pure magic, but a bit of work since I needed to revisit
each of 290+ pages in each of the 3 steps.. then adobe acrobat 
for combining the tiffs into pdf and adding OCR :) Now where do 
I upload it?

and then

I have uploaded it here  Feel free to upload elsewhere too. Thanks!

All credits for making this book available to us goes to Sanjeev. My many thanks to him for this!!!

The Internet Archive Link (Sanjeev)

The Internet Archive Link (Mir Titles) added Jan 2020

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Molecules Without Chemical Bonds – Dmitriev

Posted on September 25, 2013 by damitr

The shape and the size of a figure are of no importance in topology.

In this post we will see a book on chemical topology titled Molecules Without Chemical Bonds by I.S. Dmitriev.

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In recent technical literature more and more of often one comes across such terms as “topology of a molecule”, ” topological properties”, “topological bonding”, etc. Broadly speaking, topology is a branch of mathematics dealing with the phenomenon of continuity. A more detailed definition would require from the reader a more profound knowledge of many complex mathematical concepts. This book, however, is designed primarily for a chemist. Besides, it is a popular science book (of course, if one regards as popular science not only books of what chemistry makes of timber type). For this reason we shall give here only the most essential data on topology.

Some ten years ago only the few were aware of the existence of molecules without chemical bonds. Nowadays a new scientific discipline, chemical topology, appeared to study them. This science has succeeded in predicting and producing many remarkable chemical compounds (e.g. catenanes whose molecules are interconnected like links of a chain), in defining the electronic structure of molecules more precisely, and so on.

The complicated concepts of chemical topology are presented here in a clear and comprehensible form. The booklet is intended for teachers and university and high-school students majoring in chemistry and mathematics.

The book was translated from the Russian by Yuri Atanov and was first
published by Mir Publishers in 1981.

PDF | OCR | 600 dpi | Bookmarked | Paginated | 165 Pages | Covers | 10.9MB

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