Theories of figures of celestial bodies. (reprint, 1958)

by Jardetzky, Wenceslas S

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Book desription: Dover Pub. Co., 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The 1958 work (Interscience Publishers, NY) is here reprinted, making available a text suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students written by a renowned researcher and educator affiliated with Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (he was one of the last students of A.M. Liapounov). Coverage includes the methods of Poincaré, Liapounov, Lichtenstein, and Wavre; invariable or varying figures, zonal rotation, systems composed of fluid and rigid parts, fluid mass and centers of attraction, and figures of compressible masses. Otto Struve (astrophysics, U. of California, Berkeley) provides the foreword. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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