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The acronym for Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF, was out of date almost as soon as it was coined.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...
Read article 'Mathematics for the Imagination'
Robert Cailliau reviews in 2003 Mathematics for the Imagination.
Read article 'From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2002 From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939.
Read article 'The Particle Odyssey'
Martin Redfern reviews in 2002 The Particle Odyssey.
Read article 'Physicists and the decision to drop the bomb'
The tide of the Second World War turned in the Allies’ favour in 1943. In January the siege of Leningrad ended, and in February the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad and were in retreat before t...
Read article 'Fermilab: a laboratory at the frontier of research'
Since its foundation in 1967, creeping urbanization has taken away some of Fermilab's remoteness, but the famous buffalo still roam, and farm buildings evocative of frontier America dot the landscape ...
Read article 'How European physics reached across the Wall'
In the early 1960s, East German physicists collaborated with CERN, despite the restrictions that existed as a result of the Berlin Wall. Thomas Stange, author of a book on the history of the Zeuthen l...
