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Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics: An Introduction to Group Therapy for Particle Physics

The book examines symmetries and conservation laws in quantum mechanics and relates these to groups of transformations.

Primordial Cosmology

In this book the authors provide a self-consistent and complete treatment of the dynamics of the very early universe, passing through a concise discussion of the Standard Cosmological Model, a precise...

The Nucleon–Nucleon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Selected Papers of Gerald E Brown and T T S Kuo

These selected papers provide a comprehensive overview of some key developments in the understanding of the nucleon–nucleon interaction and nuclear many-body theory.

Neutron Physics for Nuclear Reactors: Unpublished Writings by Enrico Fermi

This unique volume gives an accurate and detailed description of the functioning and operation of basic nuclear reactors, as emerging from previously unpublished papers by Enrico Fermi.

Measurements and their Uncertainties: A Practical Guide to Modern Error Analysis

This hands-on guide is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences and engineering. It assumes no prior knowledge of statistics and introduces the necessary co...

Risk – A very short Introduction

Robert Cailliau reviews in 2012 Risk – A very short Introduction.

Dark Energy: Theory and Observations

Introducing the relevant theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is ideally suited to graduate courses on dark energy, as well as supplement advanced cosmology courses.

The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics and the world’s most expensive experiment

Gordon Fraser reviews in 2012 The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics and the world’s most expensive experiment.