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Friedli, S. and Velenik, Y. Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: A Concrete Mathematical Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-107-18482-4 DOI: ...

This year’s list includes a book about an eminent physicist striving to avoid fame, two unique books for children, and a book with equations you'll actually be able to read. Elusive: How Peter Higgs ...

Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...

Natural appeal Edward Frenkel's new book looks at the beauty of mathematics such as symmetry. (Courtesy: iStockphoto/MarcelC) Mathematics has been around for thousands of years, and this has given it ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end. How do the questions Galileo faced in the ...

At one point in Patchen Barss’s new biography of Roger Penrose, we find the author seated at a table in the Oxford flat of his subject, about to interview him for the first time. It is 2018. The ...

THERE are several parts of the science of physics which appear very simple when expounded briefly in elementary text-books, but nevertheless present great difficulties when examined more carefully. A ...