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Element Genesis, solving the mystery a video release

Jacques Visser reviews in 2003 Element Genesis, solving the mystery a video release.

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...

Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter

John Cuckney reviews in 2003 Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter.

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.

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.

Reminiscences

Karen Worth talks about Viki Weisskopf, former CERN director general.

A New Kind of Science

Luis Alvarez-Gaume reviews in 2003 A New Kind of Science.

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The acronym for Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF, was out of date almost as soon as it was coined.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”, ...

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.