A Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist investigates two areas. The first concerns problems in which the time of relaxation of a stellar system is central. The second examines problems centering around Liouville's theorem and the solutions of the equation of continuity. Unabridged republication of the edition published by University of Chicago Press, 1942.
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