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by Bilahari Kausikan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the five public IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between January and May 2016, and highlights of his dialogue with the...
A Lesson for the Future of Our Science
My Testimony on Lord Patrick M S Blackett
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.s.l.), at Jungfraujoch. The book presents an overview of Blackett's...
Emergent Phenomena in Atomic Nuclei from Large-Scale Modeling
A Symmetry-Guided Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is a unique collection of reviews that share a common topic, emergent phenomena in atomic nuclei, while revealing the multifaceted nature of the subject, from quarks to heavy nuclei. It tells an amazing story of a decades-long journey of trials and successes, up to present days, with the...
Doing Science
In the Light of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some...
The Handbook on Optical Constants of Semiconductors
In Tables and Figures
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Knowledge of the refractive indices and absorption coefficients of semiconductors is especially important in the design and analysis of optical and photonic devices. This book presents data on the optical constants of various elemental and compound semiconductors. A complete set of the optical constants...
Topics in Modern Physics
Solutions to Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the twentieth century — the era of “modern physics”. Two books by the second author entitled Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations and Advanced Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, aimed at the very best students,...
Light and Vacuum
The WaveParticle Nature of the Light and the Quantum Vacuum. Electromagnetic Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics Beyond the Standard Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of electromagnetic wave theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED) and analyzes the main theoretical difficulties encountered to ensure a coherent mathematical description of the simultaneous wave–particle nature of light, put in...
General Relativity
A First Examination
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This textbook is suitable for a one-semester introduction to General Relativity for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering. The book is concise so that the entire material can be covered in the one-semester time frame. Besides, the readers are introduced to the subject easily without the...
by Kai S Lam
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This new (second) edition contains a general treatment of quantum field theory (QFT) in a simple scalar field setting in addition to the modern material on the applications of differential geometry and topology, group theory, and the theory of linear operators to physics found in the first edition....
by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle–Wickramasinghe...
by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by...
Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
We have written this book in order to provide a single compact source for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for professional physicists who want to understand the essentials of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. It is an outgrowth of a seminar course taught to physics and mathematics...
Ebola
An Evolving Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Selected as CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.
The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public's,...
Analytic Number Theory
An Introductory Course(Reprinted 2009)
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
This valuable book focuses on a collection of powerful methods of analysis that yield deep number-theoretical estimates. Particular attention is given to counting functions of prime numbers and multiplicative arithmetic functions. Both real variable (”elementary”) and complex variable (”analytic”)...