NEW BOOKS

Mathematics

W. BLASCHKE, Prof. Differential Geometry and the Geometric Foundations of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Translated from the 3rd German edition by M. Ya. Vygodsky. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Book I. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935. Book I. Elementary Differential Geometry, 350 pp., with drawings. 6000 copies, 4 rub. 75 kop. + 1 rub. translation. Original title page in German. Bibliography given in footnotes.

S. S. BYUSHGENS, Prof. Analytic Geometry. Concentrates 2 and 3. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, 443 pp., with drawings. 7000 copies, 6 rub. + 60 kop. translation.

Study of the general equation of the 2nd order. Methods of abbreviated notation in their application to equations of the 1st and 2nd order.

V. GRANVILLE and N. LUZIN. Course of Differential and Integral Calculus. 3rd stereotyped edition. Approved as a textbook in 1935 by VKVTO, Part II. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, Part II, Integral Calculus, 302 pp., with drawings. 25,000 copies, 4 rub. 75 kop. + 60 kop. translation.

FELIX KLEIN. Elementary Mathematics from the Viewpoint of Higher Mathematics, read at the University of Göttingen. Translated from the German by D. A. Kryzhanovsky. Edited by V. F. Kagan. 3rd edition. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Vol. I. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, Vol. I, Arithmetic. Algebra. Analysis. 480 pp., with drawings. 7000 copies, 4 rub. 50 kop. + 1 rub. translation. Original title page in German. Bibliography indicated in footnotes.

M. LAVRENTIEV and L. LYUSTERNIK. Fundamentals of the Calculus of Variations. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Vol. I, Part I. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, Vol. I, Part 1. Functions of Many Variables, 148 pp., with drawings. 6000 copies, 2 rub. + 1 rub. translation.

Presentation of the elements of \(n\)-dimensional geometry, the theory of extrema of functions of \(n\) variables in a geometric treatment, and the theory of quadratic forms in connection with the investigation of the behavior of functions in a neighborhood of their extremal points. Intended for university and pedagogical-institute students.

I. I. PRIVALOV. Introduction to the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, 4th ed., revised and enlarged. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, 386 pp., with drawings. 7000 copies, 5 rub. 50 kop. + 60 kop. translation.

Jet Propulsion. Edited by A. A. Butler et al. Leningrad—Moscow, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 153 pp., with illustrations and graphs. (Military-Scientific Committee of the Central Council of the Union of Osoaviakhim of the USSR, Jet Group.) 3000 copies, 2 rub. 50 kop.

Paths of development of aviation and jet propulsion. Basic propositions of the general theory of jet propulsion. Vertical motion of rockets. Stability of a rocket in flight. Construction of trajectories of rocket apparatus possessing initial velocity. Vortex motion and flow around bodies. [[unclear: remainder of sentence cut off at bottom of page]]

aircraft. The use of oxygen reaction engines on an airplane. Calculation of an airplane’s takeoff run with booster rockets. Calculation of the braking of an airplane’s landing roll by means of rockets. Intended for the Soviet scientific and technical public: engineering and technical workers and inventors.

I. F. STEFFENSEN, Theory of Interpolation. Trans. from English by I. N. Khlodovsky. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for state universities. M.—L. ONTI—Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, 236 pp., 3000, 3 rub. 25 kop. Original title page in English.

Physics

K. F. HERZFELD, Kinetic Theory of Matter. Trans. from German by V. Kudryavtseva, P. Tartakovsky, and M. Usanovich. M.—L. ONTI—Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, 499 pp., with illustrations. 60,000, 6 rub. + 1 rub. binding. Original title page in German. Bibliography in footnotes.

Kinetic theory of gases. General statistical mechanics. Gases. Solid body. Theory of liquids, solutions, fluctuations, and quanta. Development of the statistical method. Numerical quantities. A chapter on the latest development of quantum statistics, written by P. S. Tartakovsky, has been added to the translation. Name and subject indexes are appended. Intended as a textbook for students of the physics and mathematics faculties of universities, and also valuable as a monograph on kinetic theory.

PASCUAL JORDAN, Prof. Statistical Mechanics on the Basis of Quantum Theory. Trans. from German by A. S. Kompaneets. Kharkov—Kiev, ONTI—DNTVU, 1935, 82 + (I) pp., 4000, 1 rub. 80 kop.

The book pursues a dual aim: to give an accessible exposition of statistical mechanics and the kinetic foundation of thermodynamics by the methods of Boltzmann and Gibbs, and a consistent, complete presentation of statistical theory. Special attention is devoted to reciprocity relations in the probability laws of elementary quantum processes. Intended for persons possessing some preliminary knowledge of quantum theory.

G. A. LORENTZ, Statistical Theories and Thermodynamics. Lectures delivered at the Collège de France in November 1912 by G. A. Lorentz, edited in 1913 by L. Dunoyer. Trans. from French. Edited and supplemented by Yu. A. Krutkov, L.—M. ONTI—Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature, 1935, 155 pp., 5000, 2 rub. 50 kop. Original title page in French. Bibliography in footnotes (pp. 5–7).

MAX PLANCK, Introduction to Theoretical Physics. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for state universities, part V, M.—L. ONTI—Main Editorial Office of General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, part V. Trans. from German by P. N. Uspensky, 228 pp., 5000, 3 rub. + 60 kop. binding. Original title page in German.

The book is the fifth and final part of M. Planck’s work (the first 4 parts were published by Gostekhizdat in 1932–1934).

The Principle of Relativity. G. A. Lorentz, A. Poincaré, A. Einstein, H. Minkowski. Collection of works by the classics of relativism. Edited by V. K. Frederiks and D. D. Ivanenko (L.). ONTI—Editorial Office of General Technical Literature. Superbinding. 386 + (2) pp. (Classics of Natural Science. Under the general editorship of I. I. Agol, S. I. Vavilov, M. Ya. Vygodsky, and others), 5000. Bibliography given in footnotes.

The collection contains the principal articles in which the theory of relativity was first formulated: G. A. Lorentz, Interference experiment of Michelson; G. A. Lorentz, Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than the velocity of light; A. Einstein, Does the iner-

of a body from the energy contained in it; H. Minkowski, Space and Time; five papers by A. Einstein devoted to the general theory of relativity. Biographies of all four authors of the collection are given, as well as notes, chiefly of a historical character, compiled by D. D. Ivanenko and V. K. Frederiks. The present collection differs from the analogous German edition by the inclusion of A. Poincaré’s paper. All the articles placed here have been translated in full, without a number of omissions found in the German edition.

Yu. B. RUMER, Introduction to Wave Mechanics. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, part 1, Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomographs, 1935, part 1, 148 pages, with drawings, 6000 copies, 2 rubles 25 kopecks.

The mathematical foundations of the apparatus and the physical premises of quantum theory. The exposition of the basic ideas of quantum theory is preceded by information from classical mechanics and wave optics. Appendices: Euler’s theorem, “stellar” variation, the system of atomic units, and others. The book is a course of lectures delivered in the 1933/34 academic year at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University.

F. ROSENBERGER, History of Physics. Translated from the German under the editorship of I. Sechenov, newly checked and revised by V. S. Gokhman. Preface by S. F. Vasiliev, part III, issue I, Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomographs, 1935, part III, History of Physics in the Last (XIX) Century, issue I, 301 pages, with 10,000 drawings, 5 rubles 50 kopecks + 1 ruble binding. The original title page is in German. The bibliography is given in footnotes.

The present volume contains an account of the evolution of physics approximately from 1780 to 1840. It covers the material preparing the discovery of the law of conservation of energy. An account both of the history of the discovery itself and of the reform of all physics caused by it will be placed in the next issue of the 3rd volume. The history of the decomposition of the doctrine of imponderables (the period approximately from 1780 to 1815) and the history of the convertibility of the various forms of energy, or “forces,” as they were called according to the old terminology, are set forth in detail by F. Rosenberger (the period approximately from 1815 to 1840). A name and subject index is provided.

The book is intended for scientific workers.

A. B. SHEKHTER, Chemical Reactions in an Electric Discharge. Leningrad—Moscow, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature, 1935, 152 pages, with drawings, 3000 copies, 1 ruble 90 kopecks. Bibliography: “Lit-ra” (126 titles, on pp. 146—150).

Gas discharge. Reaction under electron and ion impact. Gas discharge as a kinetic medium. Active gases. Inorganic and organic reactions. Technical applications (volumetric analysis, cracking, ozone; production of hydrocyanic acid, etc.). Intended for scientific workers.

A. EINSTEIN, The Foundations of the Theory of Relativity. Four lectures delivered in May 1921 at Princeton University. Translation and notes by Prof. N. N. Andreev. Supplement by M. P. Bronstein, 2nd ed., Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomographs, 1935, 106 + (1) pages, with graphs, 10,000 copies, 2 rubles. Original title page in German.

Time and space in earlier physics. The special and general theory of relativity (Lorentz transformations. Maxwell’s equations. Momentum, energy, and mass. Energy tensor. Law of conservation of energy. Hypothesis of equivalence. Basic invariant and its physical significance. General theory of tensors. Relation to Newton’s theory. Cosmological problem, etc.). Addenda: The life and work of Albert Einstein. The theory of relativity in the general scheme of theoretical physics. Mechanics of the special principle of relativity. Electrodynamics of moving bodies. Experimental foundations.

...of the special principle of relativity, etc. Intended for scientific workers.

A. ENGEL and M. SHTENBEK, Physics and Technology of Electric Discharge in Gases. Translated from the German by G. Spivak, S. Gvozdovers, and E. Reichrudel. Edited by Prof. N. A. Kaptsov. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities, vol. 1. Moscow—Leningrad, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for General Technical Literature and Nomography, 1935, vol. 1, Basic Laws, 251 pp., with drawings. 3000 copies, 5 rub. + 1 rub. binding. Original title page in German. Bibliography: “Lit-ra” (75 titles on pp. 247–248).

The occurrence of free charged particles. Laws of collisions. Ionization of gases by electrons, ion streams, and photons. Formation of charged particles in a gas by electric fields. Motion of charged particles in a vacuum and in a gas. Oscillations, neutralization, and recombination of charged particles. Appendix: information from the kinetic theory of gases. Intended for workers in scientific research institutes, for engineering and technical personnel, and for advanced students.

Physical Chemistry

V. RODEBUSH and E. RODEBUSH, Introduction to Physical Chemistry. Translated from the English by A. A. Bundel under the editorship of Prof. A. V. Rakovsky. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Moscow, ONTI—Main Editorial Office for Chemical Literature, 1935, 409 pp., with illustrations and graphs. 7000 copies, 6 rub. 75 kopecks + 1 rub. binding. Original title page in English.

OSTWALD (and others), Physico-Chemical Measurements. Translated from the 5th German edition under the editorship of A. I. Rabinovich, A. V. Rakovsky, P. A. Rebinder, and E. V. Shpolsky. Approved by the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities. Part I, Leningrad, ONTI—Khimteoret, 1935. Before the title page: Ostwald—Luther—Drucker, part 1, 2nd stereotyped edition. 378 + (1) pp., with illustrations, drawings, and graphs. 5000 copies, 6 rub. + 1 rub. binding. Original title page in German. Bibliography in the notes (at the end of the page).

Calculations; measurement of length; weighing; measurement of temperature; thermostats; glass-blowing and technical auxiliary work; pressure measurements; volume, density; thermal expansion and compressibility; boiling point; vapor pressure, melting point and critical quantities; viscosity, thermal conductivity, surface tension and adsorption; solubility; determination of molecular weight; calorimetric work. The book is intended for scientific workers, graduate students, and workers in factory laboratories.

Managing editor E. V. Shpolsky. Technical editor V. N. Dikov.

ONTI No. 221. Index T-T-60. Print run 3650 + 50 separate impressions. Sent to typesetting 3/II 1936. Signed for printing 25/III 1936. Paper format 62 × 94. Accounting-author’s sheets 11. Paper sheets 4⅝. Printed characters per paper sheet 140,000. Order No. 224. Glavlit authorization No. V-37123. Released March 1936.

3rd Printing House of ONTI named after Bukharin. Leningrad, Moiseenko St., 10.