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Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

This book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity and modern biology.

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities

Both a history and a metahistory, this book focuses on the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s until 1925, and the methodological problems associated wi...

Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Quest for Physics Beyond the Standard Model(s) (TASI 2002)

This book features three lecture-series courses given at the School of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) on Elementary Particle Physics in 2002.

Philosophy of Science: A New Perspective

This "new perspective" discusses the philosophical issues inherent within the research pursued by scientists at the forefront today.

Iron Dominated Electromagnets: Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Measurements

Iron Dominated Electromagnets covers a wide scope of material ranging from the physical requirements for typical high-performance accelerators, through the mathematical relationships that describe the...

Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

Peggie Rimmer reviews in 2006 Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics.

Theory and Phenomenology of Sparticles: An Account of Four-Dimensional N = 1 Supersymmentry in High Energy Physics

A theoretical and phenomenological account of sparticles, this book provides a comprehensive, pedagogical and user-friendly treatment of the subject of four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetry, as well ...

Brane-Localized Gravity

In this book the author provides a detailed introduction to the brane-localized gravity of Randall and Sundrum, in which gravitational signals can localize around our four-dimensional world in the eve...