Books offered by JF Ptak Science Books

Moritz Schlick.  A la Theorie de la Relativite et de la Gravitation, translated into French from the fourth German edition by Maurice Solovine. Paris; Gauthier-Villars, 1929.  94pp. Unopenned.  Very nice copy.  $75

Hermann Weyl.  Mathematische Analyse des Raumproblems, vorlesungen Gehalten in Barcelona und Madrid.  Berlin; Julius SPringer:  1923.  116pp.,  Original printed wrappers.  Very nice copy. 

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, [ (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919), Nobel in physics, 1904, and author of a still-standard work in acoustics, The Theory of Sound.]

"On Waves".  In: The Philosophical Magazine, April 1876.  Pp 257-279, in the issue comprising pp 257-336. $200

Offered in the original, never-bound, unopened quires for this issue--scarce in this state.  In this paper Raleigh provides mathematical proof for the experimentally elegant but not-yet-accepted hypotheses of John Scott Russell's w (1808–1882) work on solitons. 

Banesh Hoffman.Three offprints, all in original wrappers.  $150/all

"Projecive Relativity", offprint from the Physical Review, pp 810-822, September 1, 1930.  Fine copy.

"On Genberal Relativity", offprint, Reviews of Modern Physics, pp 173-204, January 1932. Vol 4/1.Very good copy.

"A Modificationb of Levi-Civita's Wave Equations", offprint from Journal of Mathematics and Physics, Vol XIII, no. 3, November 1934. 

Hermann Weyl.  "Zur Gravitationstheorie."  In:  Annalen der Physik, 4th series, volume 54, no. 18, 1917.  Pp 117-145 in the issue of pp 81-164.  Removed from the bound volume of the half-year's volume.  Decent copy.  Good condition.  $75

Hermann Weyl.  Five offprints, all in original wrappers.  $175

"Generalized Riemann Matrices and Factor Sets."  Offprint: Annals of Mathematics, July 1936. 

"Commutator Algebra of a Finite Group of Collineations." Offprint:  Duke Mathematical Journal, 3/23, June 1937. Original wrappers.

"Note on Matric Algebras." Offprint: Annals of Mathematics, 38/2, April 1937. 

"Meromorphic Curves", offprint, Annals of Mathematics, July 1938. 

"On the Differential Equations of the Simplest Boundary-Layer Problems." Offprint: Annals of Mathematics, April 1942. 

Hermann Weyl.  "A Half Century of Mathematics".  Original monthly issue of The American Mathematical Monthly for October 1951.  Article occupies pp 523-533 in an issue comprising pp pp 523-596.  Very good copy.  $50

Hemrann Weyl.  Zur quantentheoretischen Berechnung molekularer Bindungsenergien.  Offprint:  Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 1930.  Pp 285-294.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good copy. 

ALso, with Part II.  1931.  Pp 33-39.  Good copy.  Original wrappers. 

The two papers:  $175

Hermann Weyl.  Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft.  Part of the Handbuch der Philosophie seres, published in Munchen and Berlin, Druck and Verlag  R. Oldenburg, 1927.  8vo, 162pp.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good copy.  $85

Richard C. Tolman.  "A General Theory of Energy Partition with Applications to Quantum Theory".  In: The Physical Review, volume XI, second series, number 4, pp 261-276 (in the volume of pp 253-337).  Original printed wrappers.  Good copy.  $125