《经典数学丛书》（Classics in Mathematics）是一套专门收入Springer以前出版现已成为很受欢迎的经典图书的系列丛书，旨在不断满足新一代年轻学生和研究人员的需要。本书初版于1975年, 2002年Springer将此书重印并编入该丛书。本书是根据作者在曼彻斯特大学和康耐尔大学的代数拓扑讲义编写而成，但内容比一年级研究生用的代数拓扑教材深。
目录
Preace 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Thermonuclear fusion 1.3 Plasmas in space 1.4 Plasma characteristics 2 Particle orbit theory 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Constant homogeneous magntic field 2.3 Constant homogencous electric and magnetic fields 2.4 Inhomogeneous magnetic field 2.5 Particl drifts and Plasma currents 2.6 Time-varying magnetic field and adiabatic invariance 2.7 Magnetic mirrors 2.8 The longitudinal adiabytic invariant 2.9 Magnetic flux as an adiabatic invarinat 2.10 Particle orbits in tokamaks 2.11 Adiabatic invariance and particle acceleration 2.12 Polarization drift 2.13 Particle motion at relativistic energies 2.14 The ponderomotive force 2.15 The guiding centre approzimation：a postscript Exercises 3 Macroscopic equations 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fluid description of a Plasma 3.3 The MHD equations 3.4 Applicability of the MHD equations 3.5 Plasma wave equations 3.6 Boundary conditions Exercises 4 Ideal magnetohydrodynamics 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Conservation relations 4.3 Static equilibria 4.4 Solar MHD equilibria 4.5 Stability of ideal MHD equilibria 4.6 The energy principle 4.7 Interchange instabilities 4.8 Ideal MHD waves Exercises 5 Resistive magnetogydrodynamics 6 Waves in unbounded homogeneous plasmas 7 Cllisionless kinetic theory 8 Collisional kinetic theory 9 Plasma radiation 10 Non-linear plasma physics 11 Aspects of inhomogeneous plasmas 12 The classical theory of plasmas Appendix 1 Numerical values of physical constants and plasma parameters Appendix 2 List of symbols References Index
