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Cosmology with MATLAB

The aim of this book is to show how software packages such as MATLAB can be extremely useful for studying cosmology problems by means of complex simulations.

Life on the Cusp

In this autobiography, Wu describes the diverse and colourful events of his life and sketches a portrait of the social environment where they took place.

Less than a year after his death at the age of 94, World Scientific has published a book honouring the memory of Yoichiro Nambu, who was one of the greatest physicists of the second half of the 20th c...

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

Aldo Ianni reviews in 2016 Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy.

Inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider: From the Proton to the Higgs Boson

Virginia Greco reviews in 2016 Inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider: From the Proton to the Higgs Boson.

60 Years of Yang–Mills Gauge Field Theories: C N Yang’s Contributions to Physics

In May 2015, the International Conference on 60 years of Yang–Mills Gauge Theories was held at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Singapore, in order to commemorate this anniversary. This book c...

Trapped Charged Particles: A Graduate Textbook with Problems and Solutions

Electromagnetic trapping, which is the confinement of charged particles by the use of combined electric and magnetic fields, has emerged as a very versatile tool for manipulating charged particles.

An Introduction to Graphene Plasmonics

Graphene plasmonics is a fast-developing area of research, for which no textbook yet exists. This book aims to fill this gap in the scientific literature.