By Ashok Das and Susumo Okubo
World Scientific
Hardback: £63
E-book: £24
Ashok Das and Susumo Okubo, colleagues at the University of Rochester, are theoretical high-energy particle physicists from different generations. Okubo’s name is probably best known for the mass formula for mesons and baryons that he and Murray Gell-Mann derived independently through the application of the SU(3) Lie group in the quark model, while Das works on questions related to symmetry. Their book is intended for graduate students of theoretical physics (with a background in quantum mechanics) as well as researchers interested in applications of Lie group theory and Lie algebras in physics. The emphasis is on the inter-relations of representation theories of Lie groups and the corresponding Lie algebras.
