New York: Springer, 1983. Brown cloth, pp 290, indexed. Small corner bruise at head of spine, else fine, no owner names. In this final volume I have tried to present the subject of statistical mechanics in accordance with the basic principles of the series. The effort again entailed following Gustav Mahler's maxim, "Tradition = Schlamperei" (i.e., filth) and clearing away a large portion of this tradition-laden area. The result is a book with little in common with most other books on the subject. The ordinary perturbation-theoretic calculations are not very useful in this field. Those methods have never led to propositions of much substance. Even when perturbation series, which for the most part never converge, can be given some asymptotic meaning, it cannot be determined how close the nth order approximation comes to the exact result. Since analytic solutions of nontrivial problems are beyond human capabilities, for better or worse we must settle for sharp bounds on the quantities of interest, and can at most strive to make the degree of accuracy satisfactory. Last volume in the series.; Octavo 0387817018

New York: Macmillan, 1936. Dark blue cloth. pp (viii), 336. Index. Light yellowing to page edges and endpapers; brown spots to inner hinges from binding materials; ink owner name inside front cover; else a VG+, jacketless copy. "His technical book The Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons (1936), based almost wholly on the spin extension of relativity, spurred Eddington to evolve a statistical extension. Thus during his last years he worked indomitably toward his dream--'Bottom's dream'--he called it--his vision of a harmonization of quantum physics and relativity. The difficulties were immense, and, as we now know, the greatest complexities of nuclear physics and subatomic particles were not yet discovered. But he took hurdle after hurdle as he saw them, with daring leaps, always landing, as he believed, surefootedly on the far side, even though he could not demonstrate his trajectories with mathematical rigor" - D.S.B. 4: pp 281-82. 1.35 kg parcel; Quarto

Cambridge: At the University Press, for The Physical Society, London, 1934. Quarto. Green cloth. iv, 371 pp. Erratum slip tipped in at page 1. Small white call numbers on spine; bruise to lower outer corners of covers and softly to text; ink name on front free endpaper; else a VG unworn copy, no library marks but for the call numbers. Contains on pp 198-227 "Electrical phenomena at extremely low temperatures", a paper by Professor J.C. McLennan, an important Canadian physicist. He did low temperature research including the conductivity of metals. In his lab at the University of Toronto in 1923, he made liquid hydrogen, being the first to build an apparatus to do it and only the second person to succeed. He was soon liquifying helium as well. The volume also contains "Quantum and wave mechanics" by George Frederick James Temple, "The Spiral nebulae and the expansion of the universe" by G.C. McVittie, several papers on X-rays, "The Physics of the Atom" by E.N. da C. Andrade, and many other articles. First volume in an annual series. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.

Berlin: Springer, 1995. Yellow and orange boards. pp 217. Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs series. Fine copy, no owner marks. Self-dual Chern-Simons theories form a new class of self-dual gauge theories and provide a field theoretical formulation of anyonic excitations in planar (i.e., two-space-dimensional) systems. Much of the recent attention of these theories is due to the surprising and novel ways in which they differ from the standard Maxwell, or Yang-Mills, gauge theories. These Chern-Simons theories are particular to planar systems and have therefore received added research impetus from recent experimental and theoretical breakthroughs in actual planar condensed-matter systems, such as the quantum Hall effect. This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the basic properties of the "self-dual" Chern-Simons theories, concluding with an overview of more advanced results and an extensive bibliography. Such models possess Bogomol'nyi energy bounds, topological charges, vortex solutions, and supersymmetric extensions, features which are familiar from other well-known self-dual systems such as instantons, monopoles, and vortices. This book is intended mainly for graduate students having some familiarity with gauge theory, but will also be of interest to researchers in related fields.; Octavo 3540602577

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Red cloth, top edges red. pp [2], (x), 372 + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and 11 other plates. Appendix (list of honours, list of printed books, address and periodical contributions), Index. Fingernail-size chip at head of very lightly sunned spine with loss of four letters; yellowing and foxing to page edges; foxing to the tissue guard; one inch split to rear inner hinge; else a VG tight and unworn copy, contents clean. "Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 June 1851 - 12 June 1916) was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday." - Wikipedia. Technical education, light and optics, and electromagnetism were major interests. He made an important contribution to the working of the submarine telegraphic cable and gave the first public demonstration of the newly discovered X-rays. He was also an active Quaker; Octavo

New York: Springer, 1995. Yellow boards. pp 403, indexed. Very nearly fine, no owner marks. Soliton theory is an important branch of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. An active and productive field of research, it has important applications in fluid mechanics, nonlinear optics, classical and quantum fields theories etc..This book presents a broad view of soliton theory. It gives an expository survey of the most basic ideas and methods, such as physical background, inverse scattering, Bäcklund transformations, finite-dimensional completely integrable systems, symmetry, Kac-Moody algebra, solitons and differential geometry, numerical analysis for nonlinear waves, and gravitational solitons. Besides the essential points of the theory, several applications are sketched and some recent developments, partly by the author and his collaborators, are presented. This book has been written for specialists, as well as for teachers and students in mathematics and physics. In print at CAD 179.00 (2017).. ; Octavo 0387571124