Rosenbluth M. Advanced Plasma Theory 1964

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This book is Course 25 in Proceedings of the International School of Physics, "Enrico Fermi", sponsored by the Italian Physical Society. It covers the principal series of lectures given at Varenna during July 1962. The director of the course was Marshall Rosenbluth of the United States. The main emphasis of the book is on the plasma theory that has been developed in connection with controlled thermonuclear research, and the faculty was drawn the primarily from the controlled fusion laboratories of the United States and Western Europe. Although each chapter is written by independent author, the arrangement is good in that the more basic and more fully developed subjects appear at the beginning and are followed by several shorter chapters on newer areas of research or special problems