Theoretical & mathematical astronomy books

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Between Theory and Observations: Tobias Mayer's Explorations of Lunar Motion, 1751-1755

Between Theory and Observations: Tobias Mayer's Explorations...

Author: Steven Wepster
ISBN: 9781461425038
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book presents a detailed and rigorous account of the work of Tobias Mayer, a mathematician and astronomer of...  Read More >>

Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in Sectionibus Conicis Solem Ambientium

Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in Sectionibus Conicis...

Author: Carl Friedrich Gauss
ISBN: 9780511841705
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This 1809 Latin work by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) offered a streamlined and sophisticated...  Read More >>

Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)

Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the...

Author: John M. Steele
ISBN: 9781461421481
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Plasma Turbulence in the Solar System

Plasma Turbulence in the Solar System

Author: Yasuhito Narita
ISBN: 9783642256660
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Dynamics of astrophysical systems is often described by plasma physics, yet understanding the nature of plasma turbulence...  Read More >>

Z = 30-47. Excited Nuclear States

Z = 30-47. Excited Nuclear States

Author: Herwig Schopper ,  Zoya N Soroko
ISBN: 9783642229299
Format: Hardback
$1451.97

Focuses on the properties of the excited states of all nuclei. This title provides data (energy levels, branching...  Read More >>

Z = 1-29. Excited Nuclear States

Z = 1-29. Excited Nuclear States

Author: Herwig Schopper
ISBN: 9783642227974
Format: Hardback
$1451.97

Focuses on the properties of the excited states of all nuclei. In this title, the data presented are collected from...  Read More >>

Particles and Fields 2

Particles and Fields 2

Author: Anton Z. Capri
ISBN: 9781461335955
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Particle physics seems to be entering a new period of consoli- dation. In 1977 when the first summer institute on...  Read More >>

Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

Author: Francesca Matteucci
ISBN: 9783642224904
Format: Hardback
$327.36

The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies,...  Read More >>

From the Universe to the Elementary Particles: A First Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental Interactions

From the Universe to the Elementary Particles: A First...

Author: Ulrich Ellwanger
ISBN: 9783642243745
Format: Hardback
$158.37

Finally, the book sketches as yet speculative theories: Grand Unification theories, supersymmetry, string theory...  Read More >>

The 4th International Conference On Proton Emitting Nuclei And Related Topics

The 4th International Conference On Proton Emitting...

Author: Bertram Blank
ISBN: 9780735409835
Format: Paperback
$377.52

Covers a range of subjects from beta decay of nuclei closer to stability for the study of fundamental interactions,...  Read More >>

Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar...

Author: Paul Gilster
ISBN: 9781441918185
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate...  Read More >>

UV Astronomy 2011

UV Astronomy 2011

Author: Boris Shustov ,  Ana I. Gómez de Castro
ISBN: 9789400725720
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Papers included in that topical issue cover four main topics of UV astronomy: stellar physics and evolution, planets,...  Read More >>

Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics

Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics

Author: Christoph Lehner ,  Jürgen Renn
ISBN: 9780817649395
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is...  Read More >>

Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020

Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through...

Author: Francis Reddy
ISBN: 9781461406099
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Integrating extensive graphics with an 8-year astronomical calendar, this book presents sky events geared to naked-eye...  Read More >>

Physics of Planetary Ionospheres

Physics of Planetary Ionospheres

Author: S. J. Bauer
ISBN: 9783642655579
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Although there are, in addition to the classic but somewhat dated books'l-, some excellent recent books on ionospheric...  Read More >>

The Study of Time: Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Oberwolfach (Black Forest) — West Germany

The Study of Time: Proceedings of the First Conference...

Author: J. T. Fraser ,  F. C. Haber
ISBN: 9783642653896
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The First Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time was held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut...  Read More >>

Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to Understand the Motion of the Universe

Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to Understand...

Author: Arthur Mazer (Southern California Edison)
ISBN: 9781118024270
Format: Paperback
$127.95

Discover how mathematics and science have propelled history From Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment and then...  Read More >>

Astrophysics of Neutron Stars

Astrophysics of Neutron Stars

Author: Ersin Gogus ,  Unal Ertan
ISBN: 9780735409392
Format: Paperback
$380.16

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Linear and Regular Celestial Mechanics: Perturbed Two-body Motion Numerical Methods Canonical Theory

Linear and Regular Celestial Mechanics: Perturbed Two-body...

Author: Eduard L. Stiefel ,  Gerhard Scheifele
ISBN: 9783642650291
Format: Paperback
$316.77

Besides the possibility of the mutual fruitful interaction between celestial and oscillatory mechanics which is...  Read More >>

XV Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio De Janeiro

XV Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio...

Author: Eduardo Telles ,  Renato Dupke
ISBN: 9780735409507
Format: Paperback
$356.40

"""Special Courses ('Ciclo de Cursos Especiais', CCE, in Portuguese) ... XVth Special Courses (XV CCE)""--P. 1."...  Read More >>

International Symposium on the Recent Progress of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Observation

International Symposium on the Recent Progress of Ultra-High...

Author: Hiroyuki Sagawa ,  Yoshiya Kawasaki
ISBN: 9780735409279
Format: Paperback
$411.84

International Symposium on the Recent Progress of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Observation  Read More >>

25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Texas 2010)

25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Texas...

Author: Felix A. Aharonian ,  Werner Hofmann
ISBN: 9780735409415
Format: Paperback
$369.60

25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics 2012  Read More >>

Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies

Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies

Author: Dong-Woo Kim ,  Silvia Pellegrini
ISBN: 9781461405795
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Based on a number of new discoveries resulting from 10 years of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations and corresponding...  Read More >>

Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys: Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010

Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys: Proceedings...

Author: André Moitinho ,  João Alves
ISBN: 9783642221125
Format: Hardback
$525.36

The symposium ""Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys"" was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010....  Read More >>

Gravitation in Astrophysics: Cargèse 1986

Gravitation in Astrophysics: Cargèse 1986

Author: B. Carter ,  J.B. Hartle
ISBN: 9781461290568
Format: Paperback
$145.17

With the discovery of pulsars, quasars, and galactic X-ray sources in the late 60's and early 70's, and the coincident...  Read More >>

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