Abstract
ALL engineers who are engaged in one or other of the numerous branches of electrical communication should know something of the theory of ‘repeated’ networks. These networks occur in artificial transmission lines, in line balances, in filters, and in phase shifters, all of which are of increasing practical importance. This book gives a very good account of the mathematical theory of these devices. Fifty years ago it was not uncommon for physicists to consider that the theory of numbers and subjects like determinants and continued fractions might well be omitted from a scientific or engineering curriculum. This book shows that it is lucky these ideas did not prevail. The theory of determinants—the author quotes Muir's “Theory of Determinants” as a book that should be consulted-is specially useful.
The Theory of Electrical Artificial Lines and Filters.
A. C. Bartlett. Pp. ix + 155. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 13s. 6d. net.
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Our Bookshelf. Nature 126, 531 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126531a0
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