A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies is a treatise and textbook on analytical dynamics by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Initially published in 1904
Cover of 1989 printing
Portrait of Whittaker by Arthur Trevor Haddon.
George H. Bryan in the 1900s. Bryan's April 1905 review of the book spurred a flurry of responses published in Nature under the title "Fictitious Problems in Mathematics".
Paul Dirac in 1933. Dirac is said to be "indebted" to the book for its critical discussion of Poisson brackets, which were required for his work on quantum mechanics.
John Lighton Synge
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John Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven-decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, an
Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
…were photolithographically reproduced from the second edition, with some corrections and added references. The new material contained a section on Synge’s geometry of dynamics and tensor analysis. The fourth edition, published in 1937, differed from the third edition only in correcting some errors and…
John Lighton Synge