It is true that "Nothing is more practical than theory" as Boltzmann said. Provided - however - that the assumptions on which The theory is founded are well und

It is true that "Nothing is more practical than theory" as Boltzmann said. Provided - however - that the assumptions on which The theory is founded are well und

This timely text is the first monograph to develop self-consistent methods and apply these to the solution of problems of electromagnetic and elastic wave propa

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Cracow, Poland, 24-27 September 2002

This book started its life as a series of lectures given by the second author from the 1970’s onwards to students in their third and fourth years in the Depar