Anthony Zee

Fearful Symmetry

The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics and tells the story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of nature.

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Produktdetails

• Princeton Science Library
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 136mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780691173269
• ISBN-10: 0691173265
• Artikelnr.: 44677292

Autorenporträt

A. Zee is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell and Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (both Princeton). Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the bestselling author, with Stephen Hawking, of The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Rezensionen

"[Zee] demonstrates effortless competence over a wide area of theoretical physics. He also displays great enthusiasm and excitement for his subject, which many readers will find infectious."--James W. McAllister, ISIS, A Journal of the History of Science Society