Mathematical methods of classical mechanics

BOOK V.

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2nd ed.. Springer.

1989.

pp.

Masters will write masterful books. There are few exceptions to this rule. Perhaps the rule is circular, since a great master is better recogmzed from an expository work than from a research paper. Well, here we have a prime example. again. a book that anyone who cultivate5 mathematics will have to peruse. even if he or she has ne\cr heard of classical mechanics.