Abstract
THAT this work should have already reached a fourth edition speaks well for the study of mathematical physics. By far the greater part of it is entirely beyond the range of the books available a generation ago; and the improvement in the style is as conspicuous as the extension of the matter. My thoughts naturally go back to the books in current use at Cambridge in the early sixties. With rare exceptions, such as the notable one of Salmon's “Conic Sections,” and one or two of Boole's books, they were arid in the extreme, with scarcely a reference to the history of the subject treated or an indication to the reader of how he might pursue his study of it. At the present time we have excellent books in English on most branches of mathematical physics, and certainly on many relating to pure mathematics. Hydrodynamics. By Prof. Horace Lamb. Pp. xvi + 708. Fourth edition. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 24s. net.
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