"... an unabridged republication of the work first published as Volume 26 in "The Oxford Engineering Science Series" by Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, in 1991, and a second edition, published by Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, in 2003. Same as the previous Dover edition, the present World Scientific edition is updated by an extensive Appendix."--T.p. verso.
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