Read article 'Introduction to Numerical Analysis'
Written for advanced undergraduate mathematics students who are interested in the "spice and spirit" of numerical analysis, this is an English translation of an updated version of Schatzman's book, wh...
Read article 'Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter'
John Cuckney reviews in 2003 Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter.
Read article 'Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe and The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, The Most Violent Explosions in the Universe'
Robert Eisenstein reviews in 2003 Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe and The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, The Most Violent Explosions in the Universe.
Read article 'Introduction'
This year has marked the passing away of two great former director-generals of CERN, Willibald Jentshcke on 11 March and Viki Weisskopf on 21 April.
Read article 'Reminiscences'
Karen Worth talks about Viki Weisskopf, former CERN director general.
Read article 'A New Kind of Science'
Luis Alvarez-Gaume reviews in 2003 A New Kind of Science.
Read article 'TRIUMF: the home of Canadian subatomic physics'
The acronym for Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF, was out of date almost as soon as it was coined. Derived from “TRI-University Meson Facility”, ...
Read article 'Sketches of an Elephant – A Topos Theory Compendium'
This comprehensive two volume set on the theory of topos - the abstract construction of algebraic geometry - owes its title to the Indian tale of four blind men asked to describe an elephant.
Read article 'Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice'
This book is based on a series of lectures given by the author at an advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level.
Read article 'Gauge Theories in Particle Physics Third Edition Volume 1: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED'
For the third edition of this classic graduate textbook, first published in 1982, the authors have substantially enlarged the text to reflect developments both in university curricula and the field of...
