Mathematical Theory of Optics / R. K. Luneburg ; foreword by Emily Wolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luneburg, Rudolf Karl, 1903-1949, author.

Contributor:

Wolf, Emily, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1966]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. WAVE OPTICS AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

CHAPTER II. HAMILTON'S THEORY OF GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF THE THEORY TO SPECIAL PROBLEMS

CHAPTER IV. FIRST ORDER OPTICS

CHAPTER V. THE THIRD ORDER ABERRATIONS IN SYSTEMS OF ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY

CHAPTER VI. DIFFRACTION THEORY OF OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520328266

0520328264

OCLC:

1149437946