by Chen Ning Yang, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9812563679, £29 ($48).
First published more than 20 years ago, this collection of Chen Ning Yang’s personally selected papers has been reprinted with the edition of two further articles published in 2003 and 2005. Supplemented with Yang’s insightful commentaries, the book provides a valuable window on research in physics from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the 1980s. It includes the seminal work with T D Lee on the non-conservation of parity and the work with R L Mills that led to modern gauge theories.
