‎Banville, John‎
‎The Singularities‎

‎Note on dirichlet series (XIV) on the singularities of dirichlet series (VI)‎

‎Tohoku, 1955, in-8, , broché, Très bel exemplaire! ‎

‎The Enigma of Time Compiled and Introduced by P.T. Landsberg , (1. Irreversibility : The symmetry of time in physics - Irreversibility - Time's arrow and external perturbations -A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : The asymmetry of time - New ideas of space and time - Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - Singularities and time-asymmetry - Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : Moment and movement in art - Evolution, myth and poetic vision)‎

‎Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol and Boston Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon paperback, editor's black printed wrappers, illustrated by an astrophysical photography, title in yellow grand In-8 1 vol. - 260 pages‎

‎many black and white illustrations Reprinted edition, 1985 (1st was 1982) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of Authors, Preface and Acknowledgments, xii, Text, 248 pages - Introduction - Minor comments on some of the reprinted papers - 1. Irreversibility : G.N. Lewis : The symmetry of time in physics - E. Schrödinger : Irreversibility - P. Morrison : Time's arrow and external perturbations - P.T. Landsberg : A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : F. Hoyle : The asymmetry of time - P.A.M. Dirac : New ideas of space and time - P.T. Landsberg : Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : A. Aharony : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Y. Ne'eman : Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - A.J. Leggett : The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - R. Penrose : Singularities and time-asymmetry - P.C.W. Davies : Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : E.H. Gombrich : Moment and movement in art - W.J. Ong : Evolution, myth and poetic vision - Some books on time - Glossary and index near fine copy, no markings‎

‎Quantized Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field. - [PREDICTION OF ANTI-MATTER]‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1931. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Series A, Vol. 132 & 133, 1933. A very fine and clean copy. [Dirac in Vol 133:] Pp. 61-72. [Entire volume: V(1), 703-706, 701, (1), XIV, 695, IX pp.]‎

‎First printing of Dirac's seminal paper in which he predict anti-matter. ""The prediction and subsequent discovery of the positron rank among the great triumphs of modern physics"". (Pais, The Genius of Science). After Dirac in 1928 had published his famous relativistic wave equation for the electron, he spent the following years working on an interpretation of the negative energy solutions of the equation. In 1930 he published his hole-theory and tried to identify the holes with protons. But, as pointed out by several others, the theory required that these counter particles to the electron must have the same mass as the electron, and also would annihilate into pure energy upon colliding with the electron. In 1931 (in this article) Dirac bit the bullet and postulated: ""A hole, if there is one, would be a new kind of particle, unknown to experimental physics ... We may call such a particle an anti-electron ... Theory at present is quite unable to suggest a reason why there should be any differences between electron and protons"". Thus, Dirac had predicted the existance of both the positron and antiproton. ""Dirac was one of the greatest theoretical physicists in the twentieth century. He is best known for his important and elegant contributions to the formulation of quantum mechanics" for his quantum theory of the emission and absorption of radiation, which inaugurated quantum electrodynamics for his relativistic equation of the electron" for his ""prediction"" of the positron and of antimatter"" and for his ""large number hypothesis"" in cosmology. Not only his results but also his methods influenced the way much of theoretical physics is done today, extending or improving the mathematical formalism before looking for its systematic interpretation."" (DSB).In 1932 C. D. Anderson produced positrons in cloud chambers exposed to radiation. Antiprotons were observed in 1954 by E. G. Segrè and O. Chanberlain.‎

‎Demonstration of the Non-Existence of Gravitational Fields with a non-vanishing total Mass free of Singularities.‎

‎Tucuman, Argentina, 1941. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Revista. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman"", Series A Matematicas y Fisica Teorica, Vol. 2, Diciembre de 1941, Nos 1 y 2. Pp. 11-15. Fine and clean. This copy has belonged to Abraham Pais (1918-2000) - the famous Einstein scholar, theoretical physicist and Einsteins collegue at Princeton - and having his name on top of the frontwrapper ""A Pais""‎

‎First edition of a scarce paper in the offprint version. The paper ""represents the basis of the one written by the same author in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli in 1943, in which, by following analogous lines, the proof of the non-existence of regular particle-type solutions was generalized to the case of cilyndrical geometries in Kaluza-Klein theory (Einstein & Pauli, 1943). Besides, other generalizations were subsequently presented. The (non)-existence of such solutions in classical unified field theory was undoubtedly an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations.""(Galvagno and Giribet).""In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics, Einstein considered five-dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a non-singular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated, and in the x5-independent theory Einstein, together with Pauli, argued it would be impossible to find these structures."" (Jeroen van Dongen).Weil: 208. - Boni: 243.‎

‎Demonstration of the Non-Existence of Gravitational Fields with a non-vanishing total Mass free of Singularities.‎

‎Tucuman, Argentina, 1941. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Revista. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman"", Series A Matematicas y Fisica Teorica, Vol. 2, Diciembre de 1941, Nos 1 y 2. Pp. 11-15. Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of a scarce paper in the offprint version. The paper ""represents the basis of the one written by the same author in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli in 1943, in which, by following analogous lines, the proof of the non-existence of regular particle-type solutions was generalized to the case of cilyndrical geometries in Kaluza-Klein theory (Einstein & Pauli, 1943). Besides, other generalizations were subsequently presented. The (non)-existence of such solutions in classical unified field theory was undoubtedly an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations.""Galvagno and Giribet).""In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics, Einstein considered five-dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a non-singular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated, and in the x5-independent theory Einstein, together with Pauli, argued it would be impossible to find these structures."" (Jeroen van Dongen).Weil: 208. - Boni: 243.‎