first edition
1951 · Oxford:
by SCHOUTEN, Jan Arnoldus (1883-1971).
Oxford:: Clarendon Press, 1951., 1951. 8vo. x, 275, [1] pp. figs., index. Blue gilt-stamped cloth; freckled, rubbed. Ownership sticker of Richard A. Weiss; manuscript name of Mjolsness. Very good. First edition. Schouten was a Dutch mathematician and a pioneer in the field of tensor calculus. PROVENANCE: Raymond C. Mjolsness, is possibly the previous owner of this volume. He was affiliated with the Space Sciences Laboratory, General Electric Company, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mjolsness and Weiss probably knew each other at Los Alamos.
(Inventory #: SW1647)