Abstract
THE author tells us that his object is to make the acquisition of a competent knowledge of the theory of attraction as easy as possible for the student. With this view he has given, in addition to the theorems on attractions and potential to be found in most of the textbooks, an account of the theory of electrostatics and some outlines of the theory of magnetism. He has attended almost exclusively to the mathematical view of his subject. Possibly the students for whom he writes will have formed sound physical conceptions before they begin to read his book; in that case they will probably find in it what they want in the way of mathematical theory.
An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Attraction.
By Francis A. Tarleton Pp. xii + 290. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.)
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L., A. An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Attraction. Nature 59, 604 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059604b0
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