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‎Space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics. (+)The Theory of Positrons. - [THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS]‎

‎Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1949. Royal8vo. In contemporary full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""The Physical Review"", Second Series, Volume 76, Number 6, No. 76. Entire issue offered. From the library of Dean E. Wooldridge. His name in gilt lettering to lower part of spine. Very fine and clean. Pp. 749-760"" 769-789.‎

‎First appearance of Feyman's landmark Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) illustrated but his famous Feynman-Diagrams which ""revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics"" (Kaiser, Physics and Feynman's Diagrams). The whole field of quantum electrodynamics advanced greatly because of this graphical formalism, which allowed researchers to communicate in an effective manner. Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonago shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics ""for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"".""At Cornell, Feynman perfected his approach to quantum theory, melding several of his prewar insights with the more pragmatic, numbers-driven approach he had honed during the war. One of his first tasks was to publish a long article, based on his dissertation, that presented a brand-new approach to quantum mechanics. Published in 1948 under the title, 'Space-Time Approach to Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics'"" in the journal Reviews of Modern Physics, his lengthy article focused on the 'Lagrangian' function for a particle, a particular combination of kinetic and potential energy familiar from classical mechanics. The probability that a quantum object would travel from one location, x1, at a time t1, to some other location, x2, at a later time t2, Feynman showed, could be calculated by summing over-that is, integrating-all of the possible paths through space and time that connected these two end points. The contribution of each path to the total would be weighted by its classical Lagrangian function evaluated along that path"" hence, the technique became known as path integrals. The main difference from the standard formalism lay not in outcomes, but in conceptual approach. Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr had argued vehemently during the 1920s that quantum mechanics spelled the end for any type of visualization of the atomic domain. Feynman countered with an intuitive approach, built around picturing the paths of particles through space and time. His greatest success [with his Feynman-diagrams] came on the heels of this path-integral approach"" (DSB).""Feynman's two papers on QED [the two present papers] were completed in April and May 1949. In the first one, 'The Theory of Positrons,' he carefully explains the meaning of his diagrams beginning with their application to the Schrödinger equation. Application to the Dirac equation yields an interpretation of the positron in which Dirac's original hole theory is no longer needed. The second paper, 'Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics,' contains the Feynman rules and explains their usage. By these rules, computations for specific problems are simplified so much that Schwinger, much later, said: ""Like the silicon chip of more recent years, the Feynman diagram was bringing computation to the masses"""" (Brandt, Harvest of a Century).Dean Everett Wooldridge (1913 - 2006) was a prominent engineer in the aerospace industry.‎

‎Forces in molecules [Feynman] (+) The mechanism of nuclear fission [N. Bohr. & J. A. Wheeler] ""On continued gravitational contraction"" [J. R. Oppenheimer & H. Snyder]. - [FEYNMAN'S UNDERGRADUATE THESIS & THE FIRST THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF A SINGULARITY]‎

‎[Lancaster], American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Entire volume of ""The Physical Review"", Volume 56, Second Series, July 1 - December 15, 1939. ""Development Department"" in small gilt lettering to lower part of spine. A very fine and clean copy. [Feynman:] Pp. 340-43. [Bohr & Wheeler:] Pp. 426-50. [Oppenheimer & Snyder:] Pp. 455-59. [Entire volume: X, 1264 pp.].‎

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‎First printing of three landmark papers, all of seminal importance in history of physics: Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, the intricacies of the fission process, the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs and the forgotten birth of black holes: The first theoretical description of a black hole, the production of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses.First printing of ""FORCES IN MOLECULES"" - know known as Feynman-Hellmann theorem - is Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, published when he was just twenty-one, which helped to establish his name in the world of physics. ""This work treated the problem of molecular forces from a thoroughly quantum-mechanical point of view, arriving at a simple means of calculating the energy of a molecular system that continues to guide quantum chemists."" (DSB). ""As Feynman conceived the structure of molecules, forces were the natural ingredients. He saw springlike bonds with varying stiffness, atoms attracting and repelling one another. The usual energy-accounting methods seemed secondhand and euphemistic: [He demonstrated that] the force on an atom's nucleus is no more or less than the electrical force from the surrounding field of charged electrons-the electrostatic force. Once the distribution of charge has been calculated quantum mechanically, then from that point forward quantum mechanics disappears from the picture. The problem becomes classical"" the nuclei can be treated as static points of mass and charge. Feynman's approach applies to all chemical bonds"" (Gleick, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, P. 54).Oppenheimer and Snyder's ""ON CONTINUED GRAVITATIONAL CONTRACTION"" constitute the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. ""Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form."" (American Physical Society). The paper has by several physics historians been described as the forgotten birth of black holes. ""Oppenheimer and his graduate student George Volkoff presented the first analysis of the formation of a neutron star in a 1939 Physical Review paper titled, ""On Massive Neutron Stars"". Oppenheimer wondered what would happen to a very massive neutron star. The Schwartzschild analysis of General Relativity has a theoretical limit, called the ""Schwartzschild limit"", when the ratio of mass-to-radius of a star is 236,000 times greater than the ratio for our sun. When this limit is exceeded, the Schwartzschild analysis does not yield a solution. Oppenheimer believed that a neutron star could have sufficient mass to exceed this limit. What would happen to it? Oppenheimer and his graduate student Hartland Snyder applied General Relativity theory to a star with sufficient mass and density to exceed the Schwartzschild limit. The Schwartzschild analysis assumed that the size of the star stays constant with time. Oppenheimer and Snyder found that they could achieve a real solution from General Relativity when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded by assuming that the diameter of the star decreases with time. They presented their analysis in a 1939 Physical Review paper, titled, ""On Continual Gravitational Contraction,"" which concluded with: ""When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted, a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely."" This analysis concluded that when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded, the star must collapse indefinitely until it reaches a singularity having an infinite density of matter"" (Bjornson, Singularity Predictions of General Relativity, P. 4).The Chandrasekhar / Eddington controvery in the mid 30ies did discuss the fate of neutron stars but the first thoroughly theoretical desciption was first published here. ""THE MECHANISM OF NUCLEAR FISSION"" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission, which laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs.""Wheeler's technical mastery of physics is best seen in the classic paper of Bohr and Wheeler. Bohr and Wheeler wrote the paper in Princeton, where Bohr was visiting in the spring of 1939, a few months after the discovery of fission. The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics. Seen from the classical point of view, it is a liquid drop composed of a positively charged fluid. The electrostatic force that is trying to split it apart is balanced by the nuclear surface tension that is holding it together. The energy supplied by the captured neutron causes the drop to oscillate in various normal modes that can be calculated classically. Seen from the quantum point of view, the nucleus is a superposition of a variety of quantum states leading to different final outcomes. The final outcome may be a uranium 235 nucleus with a re-emitted neutron, or a uranium 236 nucleus with an emitted gamma-ray, or a pair of fission-fragment nuclei with one or more free neutrons. Bohr and Wheeler calculate the cross-section for fission of uranium 235 by a slow neutron and get the right answer within a factor of two. Their calculation is a marvelous demonstration of the power of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics working together. By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated"" (John Archibald Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154 (2010)).‎

‎Superfluidity and Superconductivity. - [FEYNMAN'S ONLY PAPER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY]‎

‎Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1957. Lex8vo. In the original printed orange wrappers. In ""Reviews of Modern Physics"", Volume 29, April, No. 2, 1957. Entire issue offered. Lacking backtrip and stamp to front wrapper (Langley Aeronautical Laboratory). Otherwise a fine a copy. [Feynman] Pp. 205-212. [Entire issue: Pp. 159-254].‎

‎First printing of the Reviews of Modern Physics issue entirely dedicated to the International Congress on Theoretical Physics held in Seattle, Washington, 1957. The congress turned out to be exceptionally important in the field of superconductivity and Feynman here presented his only paper on the subject even though he spend most of the 1950ies on precisely this. Feynman's work on the subject led directly to Bardeen's focus on the subject which eventually resulted on Bardenn, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer published their famous BCS-theory paper in 1957:""John Bardeen, already well-known for his work leading to the discovery of the transistor, turned his full attention to superconductivity in 1951, having realized that the isotope effect identified the interaction between electrons that must be responsible for the phenomenon. The basic idea would be a Fermi-degenerate gas of nearly free electrons, with a weakly attractive interaction by way of the lattice phonons. Solving that problem - for example, finding the ground state of such a system - proved to be a difficult task. There was also the threat of powerful competition. Richard Feynman, one of the masters of quantum electrodynamics, could not help but notice the similarity between that problem and this one. By 1955, by then at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Bardeen decided that reinforcements were needed. He called up C. N. Yang at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, to ask for a postdoc versed in the kind of field theory one uses in quantum electrodynamics. Yang recommended Leon Cooper. At about the same time, one of Bardeen's graduate students, J. Robert Schrieffer, decided to work on superconductivity. The team was assembled. In the cramped quarters of the University of Illinois physics department, Bardeen and Cooper had to share an office, a hardship that did not prove to be an obstacle to progress. The team worked furiously in early 1957, driven in part by the feeling that Feynman was hot on the trail, using powerful new techniques they knew little about. However, it was not Feynman, but Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer who produced the microscopic theory"" (Goodstein, Richard Feynman and the History of Superconductivity).‎

‎Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics [In: ""The Physical Review. Volume 74, No. 10.""]. - [FEYNMAN'S VERY FIRST PAPER ON QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED)]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1948. Royal8vo. Royal8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. In ""The Physical Review"", Volume 74, Second Series, Number 10, November 10. With cloth back-strip. Wrappers bound 1 mm lower than book-block, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1430-1438. [Entire volume: Pp. (1271)-1567].‎

‎First edition of Feynman's very first paper on quantum electrodynamics (QED), being one of Feynman's most important publications which pre-dates his work on Feynman diagrams by a year. Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonago shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics ""for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"".‎

‎Vous voulez rire, Monsieur Feynman ! Entretiens avec Ralph Leighton. Traduction de Françoise Balibar et Claude Guthmann.Qu'en pensez-vous Monsieur Feynman ? Lettres 1939-1987‎

‎Paris Interéditions - Dunod 1985-2006 Deux volumes in-8 393 et 322 pp. brochés.‎

‎Très bon état. Ensemble réunissant les entretiens et une correspondance choisie de Richard Feynman (1918-1988), l'un des plus grands physiciens du XXème siècle, l'un des artisans du projet Manhattan, prix Nobel 1965. Une personnalité extraordinaire, charismatique, un vulgarisateur né. Libraire membre du S.L.A.M. (Syndicat national de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne) et de la L.I.L.A. (Ligue Internationale de la Librairie Ancienne). N'hésitez pas à prendre contact par mail pour des photographies et des détails supplémentaires, pour des recherches ou des estimations de livres anciens et rares.‎

‎The Feynman Lectures On Physics - Volume I: Mainly Mechanics Radiation And Heat + Volume II: Mainly Electromagnetism And Matter + Volume III: Quantum Mechanics - 7th printing‎

‎Addison-wesley publishing company 1972 in4. 1972. Broché. 3 volume(s). The Feynman Lectures On Physics - Volume I: Mainly Mechanics Radiation And Heat + Volume II: Mainly Electromagnetism And Matter + Volume III: Quantum Mechanics‎

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‎Bon état couvertures un peu défraîchies intérieurs propres‎

‎Le cours de physique de Feynman. The Feynman lectures on physics. Tome III, Mécanique quantique. ‎

‎Paris, Addison-Wesley Publishing company, 1970, in-4 oblong, broché, soft, np. Edition bilingue. Bon état. ‎

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‎Le cours de physique de Feynman / The Feynman lectures on physics - En 3 tomes (3 volumes) - Tomes 1+2+3 - Tome 1 : mécanique - Tome 2 : électromagnétisme - Tome 3 : mécanique quantique.‎

‎Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1969. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Environ 350-400 pages pour chacun des tomes - nombreuses figures en noir et blanc dans le texte - texte sur deux colonnes - textes en français et en anglais.. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎textes en français et en anglais - Tome 1 : mécanique - Tome 2 : électromagnétisme - Tome 3 : mécanique quantique. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ELECTROMAGNETISME. ‎

‎Paris, Interedition, 1979; in-8, 390-416 pp., br. Les 2 volumes. En bon état broché en 2 vol - NOUVELLE présentation francaise d'un ouvrage désormais classique - le cours de physique de Feynman.‎

‎En bon état broché en 2 vol - NOUVELLE présentation francaise d'un ouvrage désormais classique - le cours de physique de Feynman.‎

‎Révisez la physique avec Feynman : méthodes, astuces, exercices‎

‎Dunod (10/2021)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782100835164‎

‎Vous voulez rire, Monsieur Feynman !‎

‎Odile Jacob (2/2000)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782738107718‎

‎Le cours de physique de Feynman. Electromagnétisme. Tome 1‎

‎Dunod (11/2019)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782100807826‎

‎Le cours de physique de Feynman. Mécanique. Tome 1‎

‎Dunod (9/2022)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782100848966‎

‎Le cours de physique de Feynman. Mécanique quantique‎

‎Dunod (9/2021)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782100833252‎

‎Lumière et matière - Une étrange histoire , Traduit de l'anglais par Françoise Balibar et Alain Laverne‎

‎InterEditions Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur noire, illustrée d'une image en couleurs grand In-8 1 vol. - 206 pages‎

‎93 figures dans le texte en noir et blanc 1ere édition française, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : Avant-propos, préface, note des traducteurs, avertissement - Introduction - Les photons : Des particules de lumière - Les électrons et leurs interactions - Questions en suspens - Index - Richard Feynman était professeur de physique théorique au California Institute of Technology, Sorti de Princeton en 1942, il travailla pendant la guerre au laboratoire de Los Alamos, prix Albert Einstein en 1954. - il s'est vu décerner le prix Nobel de physique en 1965 avec les professeurs J.S. Schwinger et S. Tomonaga pour leurs contributions fondamentales à l'électrodynamique quantique bon exemplaire, couverture propre, intérieur frais et propre‎

‎Le Cours de physique de Feynman : Électromagnétisme, tome 2.‎

‎Paris, Dunod, 1999, in-8vo, 415 p., brochure originale illustrée. / Paperback Softcover.‎

‎Qu'en Pensez-Vous Monsieur Feynman? - Lettres 1939-1987‎

‎Paris, 2006, in-8, 322pp, broché, Très bel exemplaire! 322pp ‎

‎The transistor, a semi-conductor triode (+) Nature of the forward current in Germanium Point Contacts [BARDEEN, J. & BRATTAIN, W. H.] (+) Modulation of conductance of thin films of semi-conductors by surface charges [SHOCKLEY, W. & PEARSON, W. L.] (+)... - [DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSISTOR - THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT VOLUME OF THE PHYSICAL REVIEW]‎

‎Lancaster, PA & New York, American Physical Society, 1948. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Nature"", Vol. 74, 1948. Spine with a bit a wear and front hinge a bit loose, otherwise a fine and clean copy.‎

‎First printing of the single most important volume of The Physical Review containing an exceptional number of important papers - amongst other the first paper to describe the transistor: One of the most important inventions of the 20th Century which awarded them the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.,The three first titles are the short letters in Physical Review which first announced the invention of the transistor. The following year Bardeen and Brattain published the more comprehensive report ""Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action"". This paper was simultaneously published, the same month, in The Bell System Technical Journal (Number 2 volume 28). In 1956 Bardeen and Brattain shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley ""for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"". In 1972 Bardeen again received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory), and thus became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field. ""The invention of the transistor would in time change the world by making possible the microchip and all the devices that followed from it, but the discovery ruined the spirit of the Bell Laboratories semiconductor group. Shockley, who had been uninvolved in the invention of the original transistor, stunned Bardeen and Brattain when he tried to patent the invention in his name, hoping to base it on his suggestion of the field-effect amplifier. Shockley's plan failed because the patent attorneys discovered that Julius E. Lilienfeld, a Polish-American inventor, had already patented the field-effect notion in 1930. Shockley further antagonized Brattain and Bardeen by preventing them from working on the consequences of their historic invention, a second transistor, known as the junction device, which could better be used commercially."" (DSB)The issue also contain two of the papers leading to Richard Feynman's 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, (A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics & Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics) and the paper that led to Polykarp Kusch's 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics (The Magnetic Moment of the Electron)Also containing Maria Goeppert-Mayer paper that led to her 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics (On Closed Shells in Nuclei), the seminal P. A. M. Dirac paper on magnetic monopoles (A theory of Magnetic Poles) and three important papers on The Big Bang Theory by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and George Herman (The Origin of the Elements and the Separation of Galaxies & Thermonuclear Reactions in the Expanding Universe & On the Relative Abundance of the Elements & A Neutron-Capture Theory of the Formation and Relative Abundance of the Elements).See Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace, No. 450. ‎

‎Le cours de physique de Feynmann / The Feynman lectures on physics - En 3 tomes - Tomes 2 1re partie + Tome 2 2ème partie + Tome 3 - Tome 2 1re partie : L'éléctromagnétisme - Tome 2 2ème partie : L'éléctromagnétisme - Tome 3 : Mécanique quantique.‎

‎Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1969. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. Environ 250-300 pages par volume - textes sur deux colonnes - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte - ouvrages en français et en anglais.. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Tome 2 1re partie : L'éléctromagnétisme - Tome 2 2ème partie : L'éléctromagnétisme - Tome 3 : Mécanique quantique. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎VOUS VOULEZ RIRE, MONSIEUR FEYNMAN ! ENTRETIENS AVEC RAPLH LEIGTHON‎

‎INTEREDITIONS. 1985. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 393 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine‎

‎traduction de l'américain par Françoise Balibar et Claude Guthmann Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine‎

‎Genius - The life and science of Richard FEYNMAN‎

‎N.Y., Pantheon books, 1992, un fort volume in 8, cartonnage éditeur, 10pp., 531pp.‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎Le mouvement des planètes autour du soleil‎

‎Diderot Editeur "Jardin des sciences" 1997, in-8 broché, couverture illustrée à rabats, 162 p. (très bon exemplaire ; épuisé) Très important texte d'un cours de ce brillant physicien américain (prix Nobel de physique en 1964) que l'on croyait perdu et qui explique les principes de la mécanique céleste dans un langage simple.‎

‎Lumière et matière - Une étrange histoire.‎

‎InterEditions. 1987. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 206 pages - nombreuses figures en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Traduit de l'américain par Françoise Balibar et Alain Laverne. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎La nature de la physique - Collection Points sciences n°23.‎

‎Seuil. 1980. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 296 pages - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte - déchirure sur les 4 premières pages (page de faux titre, page avant propos).. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Collection Points sciences n°23 - traduit de l'américain par Hélène Isaac, Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond et Françoise Balibar. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Leçons sur la physique‎

‎Odile Jacob. 2010. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. XXII +343 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Préface de Roger Penrose. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎