By A R P Rau
Oxford University Press
Hardback: £25
Also available as an e-book
The selection of topics in this book reflects the author’s four-decade career in research physics and his resultant perspective on the subject. While aimed primarily at physicists, including junior students, it also addresses other readers who are willing to think with symbols and simple algebra in understanding the physical world. Each chapter, on themes such as dimensions, transformations, symmetries, or maps, begins with simple examples accessible to all, while connecting them later to more sophisticated realizations in more advanced topics of physics.
