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SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON died in 1944. He left, almost completed, a manuscript entitled “Fundamental Theory”. Sir Edmund Whittaker was invited by Miss Eddington and the syndics of the Cambridge University Press to supervise the publication of this manuscript in book form, and the volume under review is the result. Sir Edmund Whittaker has added to what must have been no light task by contributing to the Mathematical Gazette (29, 137-44, Oct. 1945) a clear introductory account of the material in the volume. Prof. E. T. Copson, of Dundee, and Prof.G. Temple, of King's College, London, have assisted Whittaker in the proof-reading. The gratitude of all who knew Eddington, either personally or through his writings, is due to the mathematicians mentioned for preserving for posterity a remarkable document, the last scientific testament of one of the profoundest thinkers of ourtime.
Fundamental Theory
By Sir. A. S. Eddington. Pp. viii + 292. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1946.) 25s. net.
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MILNE, E. Fundamental Theory. Nature 159, 486–488 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159486a0
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