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Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction by Peter Woit 9783319878355
Booksplease Price: £64.98This text systematically presents the basics of quantum mechanics, emphasizing the role of Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their unitary representations. The mathematical structure of the subject is... -
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics by Peter Woit 9780099488644
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The... -
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"Gina Says": Adventures In The Blogosphere String War by Gil Kalai 9789813142077
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82In the summer of 2006 two books attacking string theory, a prominent theory in physics, appeared: Peter Woit's 'Not Even Wrong' and Lee Smolin's 'The Trouble with Physics'. A fierce public debate,... -
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"Gina Says": Adventures In The Blogosphere String War by Gil Kalai 9789813142060
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34In the summer of 2006 two books attacking string theory, a prominent theory in physics, appeared: Peter Woit's 'Not Even Wrong' and Lee Smolin's 'The Trouble with Physics'. A fierce public debate,... -
Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order by David Orrell 9780300186611
Booksplease Price: £60.98In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have... -
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics: A Primer for Mathematicians by Philip L. Bowers
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £69.23Quantum mechanics is one of the principle pillars of modern physics. It also remains a topic of great interest to mathematicians. Since its discovery it has inspired and been inspired by many topics... -
Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective by Simon Friederich
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.03If the laws of nature are fine-tuned for life, can we infer other universes with different laws? How could we even test such a theory without empirical access to those distant places? Can we believe... -
Sneaking a Look at God's Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics - Revised Edition by Giancarlo Ghirardi
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles, seems to challenge common sense. Waves behave like particles; particles behave like waves. You can tell where a particle is,... -
Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose... -
Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation by Michael Harris 9780691175836
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.37What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the... -
What Is a Quantum Field Theory?: A First Introduction for Mathematicians by Michel Talagrand
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £74.46Quantum field theory (QFT) is one of the great achievements of physics, of profound interest to mathematicians. Most pedagogical texts on QFT are geared toward budding professional physicists,... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose 9780691119793
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.95What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.81What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe Roger Penrose 9780691264301
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly... -
Why String Theory? Joseph Conlon 9781482242478
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.99Physics World's 'Book of the Year' for 2016 An Entertaining and Enlightening Guide to the Who, What, and Why of String Theory, now also available in an updated reflowable electronic format compatible... -
Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - a Game of Theories by Jim Baggott
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.31Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that... -
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close 9780465069989
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.55It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a... -
The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe by Frank Close 9780465063826
Booksplease Price: £23.22Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at...