AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF NEWTONIAN ATTRACTION
Written by A.S. Ramsey
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1940
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF NEWTONIAN ATTRACTION
Written by A.S. Ramsey.
Stock no. 629814
1961.
Softcover.
Almost very good condition.
This book is intended for students of an honours course in mathematics. The book is an introduction to a subject which, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, occupied the interest and attention of many eminent mathematicians. Yellow cardwraps. ix and 184 pages. Reprint. Covers grubby and worn. Previous owner's blind stamp to prelims. Text block browned. Else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter I: Preliminary Mathematics
- Chapter II: Gravitational Attraction and Potential. Simple Applications
- Chapter III: Attraction and Potential at Internal Points. Spheres
- Chapter IV: Theorems of Laplace, Poisson and Gauss. General Theory
- Chapter V: Green's Theorem
- Chapter VI: Harmonic Functions
- Chapter VII: Attraction of Ellipsoids