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The Variational Principles of Mechanics
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Professor Lanczos's book is not a textbook on advances mechanics. Its purpose is to formulate and explain these fundamental concepts of this exact science which started with the work of Galileo and led to the achievements of modern relativity theory and quantum theory.
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- Authors
- Lanczos, C.
- Venue
- University of Toronto Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 1949-12-31
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- W4300644552
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- 1,345
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- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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