Physics and technology of low-temperature plasmas

the long version

I have been researching plasma-created electricity, as a mathematician- scientist for about a year. I consider this book an original primer in the evolution of plasmatron technology. Early Soviet researchers, circa 1950, did the creative experimentation which led to outlining, or codifying, some provisional, scientific principles, for this spectacular and hitherto unknown branch of physics. Related scientific efforts had sprouted perhaps a century, or more, earlier. However, the Soviet research mandate was an institutional one, well funded and focused, which must have allowed the early physicists the resources, knowledge, and experience required to crack open the shell of this new science. It is a very complex discipline, bundling thermodynamics, chemistry, physics, electricity, and so on. The research of these pioneers is a tribute to the scientific community globally, in my humble opinion.