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to show the course of the argument in sufficient detail to enable a competent mathematician to grasp the method used and to apply it

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Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics and ideas from some ofOf fundamental importance to physics and the philosophy of science, the notion of mass had never been given an integrated and coherent historical investigation until the publication of this book. In it, the noted physicist Max Jammer presents a challenging study of the historical development of the concept of mass, a labor that earned him a monograph prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A rigorous, concise, and provocative book that