John Lighton Synge - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• "Principal Directions in a Riemann Surface". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 8 (7): 198-203. 1922. PMC 1085093. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1085093/.
• "Principal Directions in the Einstein Solar Field". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 8 (7): 204-207. 1922. PMC 1085094. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1085094/.
• "A generalisation of the Riemannian line-element". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1): 61-67. 1925. MR 1501298.
• "The apsides of general dynamical systems". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (3): 481-522. 1932. MR 1501649.
• "On the Expansion or Contraction of a Symmetrical Cloud under the Influence of Gravity". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 20 (12): 635-640. 1934. PMC 1076503. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1076503/.
• Geometrical optics – an introduction to Hamilton's method. Cambridge 1937.
• "The absolute optical instrument". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1): 32-46. 1938. MR 1501960.
• with Byron Griffith: Principles of Mechanics. McGraw Hill 1942, 3rd edn. 1959.
• The hypercircle in mathematical physics – a method for the solution of boundary value problems. Cambridge 1957.
• Classical dynamics. In: Siegfried Flügge (ed.): Handbuch der Physik - Prinzipien der klassischen Dynamik und Feldtheorie. 1960.
• Relativity – the General Theory. North Holland 1960.
• General Relativity. In: DeWitt (ed.): Relativity, Dynamics and Topology. Les Houches Lectures 1963.
• with Alfred Schild: Tensor Calculus. University of Toronto Press, 1949, rev. edn. 1956, 1964, corr. printing 1969, 1981; Dover, 1978, 2009.
• Relativity: The Special Theory. North Holland, 1956, 2nd edn. 1965, 1972.
• Talking about relativity. North Holland 1970.