By Chen Ning Yang
World Scientific
Hardback: £65
Paperback: £32
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Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Chen Ning Yang has had great impact in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983 he published Selected Papers (1945–1980), With Commentary. Freeman Dyson considered it to be one of his favourite books. This sequel to that previous volume is a collection of Yang’s personally selected papers (1971–2012), supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect his changing interests after he reached the age of 30. It also includes commentaries that he wrote in 2011 when he was 89. The papers and commentaries in this collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
