A. Zee

Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

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The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sens… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Penrose, Roger (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-691-17326-9
EAN: 9780691173269
Produktnummer: 19708443
Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 376 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.2 cm 438 g
Auflage: Revised
Reihenbandnummer: 48
Gewicht: 438

Über den Autor

A. Zee is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell and Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (both Princeton). Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the bestselling author, with Stephen Hawking, of The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.