The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis.
Beginning with the first tentative chemical e……続きを見る
Forces of the Quantum Vacuum presents a number of theoretical approaches to Casimir, van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces that have been fruitfully employed in mainstream research, and also revie……続きを見る
Despite more than half a century of theoretical work, the Casimir effect is still not as fully understood as some suppose. In this treatise, the author uncovers new puzzles and paradoxes concerning ……続きを見る
An account of Max Planck’s construction of his theory of blackbody radiation, summarizing the established physics on which he drew.
In the last year of the nineteenth century, Max Planck constructed……続きを見る
The title of this book comes from The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's final plays. In it, the character Prospero remarks on the essence of existence by calling it a "baseless fabric." He goes on to qu……続きを見る
A thought-provoking book that delves into the age old question "Why Am I Here?" and comes up with a simple but satisfying answer, based on the author's lifelong research of psychology, quantum physi……続きを見る
Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard Fe……続きを見る
Presenting in a coherent and accessible fashion current results in nanomagnetism, this book constitutes a comprehensive, rigorous and readable account, from first principles of the classical and qua……続きを見る
A renowned philosopher’s final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science.
The logical empir……続きを見る
By the year 2020, the basic memory components of a computer will be the size of individual atoms. At such scales, the current theory of computation will become invalid. "Quantum computing" is reinve……続きを見る
Factorization algebras are local-to-global objects that play a role in classical and quantum field theory which is similar to the role of sheaves in geometry: they conveniently organize complicated ……続きを見る
