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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.

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...

Mathematics for the Imagination

Robert Cailliau reviews in 2003 Mathematics for the Imagination.

From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939

Gordon Fraser reviews in 2002 From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939.

The Particle Odyssey

Martin Redfern reviews in 2002 The Particle Odyssey.

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...

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 ...

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...