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This book is an interesting sign of the times. The gulf between pure and applied mathematics, in this country at any rate, has of recent years become more and more complete. Indeed there is no one who so heartily detests and despises mathematics proper as the ordinary physicist. He is often compelled to use elaborate mathematical analysis, but he does not feel or profess any interest in anything but the result, and questions as to the mathematical basis of his arguments seem to him merely trifling and vexatious.
Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals and the Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Heat.
By H. S. Carslaw. Pp. xvii + 434. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) Price 14s. net.
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H., G. Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals and the Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Heat . Nature 75, 459 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075459a0
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