Books by E. W. Hobson

Originally published in 1925, this book presents the content of a lecture delivered in November 1924 at King's College, London. The text provides a study regarding the ideal aim of physical science, referring to 'modern physical theories' of the time.

Originally published in 1914, this volume was created to mark the tercentenary of John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. Written by the prominent English mathematician Ernest William Hobson, the text provides a highly readable introduction to the theory of logarithms and puts their discovery within a historical context.

Ernest William Hobson (1856-1933) was a prominent English mathematician. In this volume, which was originally published in 1931, he focuses on the forms and analytical properties of the functions which arise in connection with those solutions of Laplace's equation which are adapted to the case of particular boundary problems.