physics

Book Reviews

• Neil Gershenfeld: The Physics of Information Technology*
  - a graduate or higher undergraduate text
• Steven S. Grubser, Frans Pretorius: The Little Book of Black Holes
  - from basic physics to collision observations
• Ian Johnston: Measured Tones*
  The Interplay of Physics and Music
• Stephen H. Kellert: In the Wake of Chaos*
  - what chaos theory is, and what it is not
• Helge Kragh: Higher Speculations
  Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot: The Fractal Geometry of Nature*
  - a casebook and a manifesto
• D.B. Melrose, R.C. McPhedran: Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media
  A Treatment Based on the Dielectric Tensor
• Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill: What is Life? The Next Fifty Years
  Speculations on the Future of Biology
• Jayant V. Narlikar: The Lighter Side of Gravity
  - a popular introduction to the physics behind astronomy
• Abraham Pais, et al.: Paul Dirac
  The Man and His Work
• Leo Sartori: Understanding Relativity
  A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
• Manfred Schroeder: Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws
  Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
• Suzie Sheehy: The Matter of Everything: A History of Discovery
  - from Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider
• Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
  A Life in Physics
• E.G. Steward: Fourier Optics: An Introduction*
  - for those with a maths/physics background
• Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky: Fearful Symmetry
  Is God a Geometer?
• John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs: Atmospheric Science*
  An Introductory Survey

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