Mathematical and Physical Papers

Abstract

THE issue of the first volume of this work in the year 1880 was the beginning of the valuable series of reprints of mathematical and physical papers for which we are indebted to the Cambridge Press. It was felt at the time that no more auspicious beginning could have been made, and the publication was widely appreciated; but a gradual and increasing sense of disappointment supervened when, after the second volume, the continuation seemed to be suspended indefinitely. A third instalment has however now appeared, after the lapse of eighteen years, and although the regrets we have referred to cannot be altogether appeased, the contents of the volume will assure it of as hearty a welcome as was accorded to its predecessors.

Mathematical and Physical Papers,

vol. iii. By Sir G. G. Stokes. Pp. viii + 451. (Cambridge University Press, 1901.) Price 15s.