This is a science book, intended for the general reader who is interested in science. The author is a physicist who is well-known for his development of the property called "self-organized Criticality", a property or phenomenon that lies at the heart of large dynamical systems. It can be used to analyse systems that are complicated, and which are part of the new science of complexity. It is a unifying concept that can be used to study phenomena in fields as diverse as economics, astronomy, the earth sciences, and physics. The author discusses his discovery of self-organized criticality; its relation to the world of classical physics; computer simulations and experiments which aid scientist's understanding of the property; and the relation of the subject to popular areas such as fractal geometry and power laws; cellular automata, and a wide range of practical applications. The book is readable without a science background--below the level of Scientific American.

《量子力学中的数学概念(英文版)》介绍了：The first fifteen chapters of these lectures （omitting four to six chapters each year） cover a one term course taken by a mixed group of senior undergraduate and junior graduate students specializing either in mathematics or physics. Typically, the mathematics students have some background in advanced analysis, while the physics students have had introductory quantum mechanics. To satisfy such a disparate audience, we decided to select material which is interesting from the viewpoint of modern theoretical physics, and which illustrates an interplay of ideas from various fields of mathematics such as operator theory, probability, differential equations, and differential geometry. Given our time constraint, we have often pursued mathematical content at the expense of rigor. However, wherever we have sacrificed the latter, we have tried to explain whether the result is an established fact, or, mathematically speaking, a conjecture, and in the former case, how a given argument can be made rigorous. The present book retains these features.

Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and expanded edition of this standard text. Among the new material, much of which is not available in any other optics text, is a section on the CAT scan (computerized axial tomography), which has revolutionized medical diagnostics. The book also includes a new chapter on scattering from inhomogeneous media which provides a comprehensive treatment of the theory of scattering of scalar as well as of electromagnetic waves, including the Born series and the Rytov series. The chapter also presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography - a refinement of the CAT scan - to which Emil Wolf, one of the authors, has made a basic contribution by formulating in 1969 what is generally regarded to be the basic theorem in this field. The chapter also includes an account of scattering from periodic potentials and its connection to the classic subject of determining the structure of crystals from X-ray diffraction experiments, including accounts of von Laue equations, Bragg's law, the Ewald sphere of reflection and the Ewald limiting sphere, both generalized to continuous media. These topics, although originally introduced in connection with the theory of X-ray diffraction by crystals, have since become of considerable relevance to optics, for example in connection with deep holograms. Other new topics covered in this new edition include interference with broad-band light, which introduces the reader to an important phenomenon discovered relatively recently by Emil Wolf, namely the generation of shifts of spectral lines and other modifications of spectra of radiated fields due to the state of coherence of a source. There is also a section on the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfield diffraction theory which, in recent times, has been finding increasing popularity among optical scientists. There are also several new appendices, including one on energy conservation in scalar wavefields, which is seldom discussed in books on optics. The new edition of this standard reference will continue to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.

本书以对爱因斯坦和相对论的介绍为主线，结合对其他科学家科学贡献的描述，展示物理学的重大成就和重要思想，一些重大科学发现的曲折过程，以及一些科学家的治学经历和珍闻趣事，同时融入了作者的部分研究成果，以及对相关问题的思考。在呈现方式上力求通过精当而浅显的比喻，深入浅出的文字和合适的图表，达到通俗易懂的效果，旨在在广义相对论发表100周年之际，呈现一本关于爱因斯坦和相对论，乃至物理学基本理论的科普读物。

《电磁学千题解》根据作者多年在北京大学的教学经验编写而成。《电磁学千题解》共收录电磁学习题上千道，并给出了详细解答，有些题还给出了不同解法。内容涵盖了电磁学的各个方面。《电磁学千题解》可供理工科大学学生学习电磁学参考，亦可供讲授电磁学的教师参考。

杨振宁教授在出版他的两册《杨振宁论文选集（1945-1980）》和《杨振宁论文选集Ⅱ》中为选出的每篇文章都写了一篇后记。这些后记是极为重要的史料，本书这些文章的结集。这些文章对20世纪物理学历史有非常重要的价值；而且对于了解和研究杨振宁教授对物理学的贡献、他的科学思想、品位、风格，以及个人某些情感经历，也具有十分重要的意义。
各篇后记主要是追寻我个人作为一个物理学家的发展过程，同时清理一下我从当研究生以来的兴趣和想法。本书并不是我对自己研究工作的评价。科学家不希望对自己所有的论文作面面俱到的评价，但最懂得自己每一篇文章故事的，莫过于作者本人。——杨振宁
一方面，您对近代物理发展的历史，作了明晰有条理的简介；同时，您把最近的过去，心头不如意事也坦白地布开，使人读了非常感动。——吴健雄
他巧妙地将八十页后记结集一起放在书的开始部分，而不是附在各篇文章的后面。这样，后记可以连续地读，成了他的科学自传，一部极好的自传。它以清楚而简练的词句描述了他的一生，朴实地描述了他工作背后的强烈感情和始终不渝的忠诚。换言之，它描述了杨振宁之所以成为杨振宁。——弗里曼·戴森

Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists the unique opportunity to test the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model. First published in 2000, this introductory text on this exciting area of high-energy physics begins with a review of the standard model, followed by the basics of heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry and how it can be applied to the classification of states, decays and fragmentation. Heavy quark effective theory is then developed and applied to the study of hadron masses, form factors, and inclusive decay rates. The authors also discuss the application of chiral perturbation theory to heavy hadrons. Written by two world leading experts, the presentation is clear and original, with problems provided at the end of each chapter. This lucid volume provides graduate students with an ideal introduction to the physics of heavy quarks, and more experienced researchers with an authoritative reference to the subject.

Leo Kadanoff is a theoretical physicist who has done research on chaos theory, superconductivity, phase transitions, fluid flow, the sociology of urban areas, heat transfer in missiles and elementary particle physics, During the last twenty-five years, he has devoted considerable effort to the development of teaching programs for underaduates based upon the use of small computers. Much of this teaching program has been an outgrowth of his interest in the description of chaos in physical systems.
此书为英文版。

这是第一本系统介绍量子相变理论的专著,其中部分内容也可作研究生教材。本书内容新颖,涉及凝聚态物理学中广泛关注的许多重要问题。本书叙述简明，将理论模型的阐述与最新实验结果的介绍密切结合。书中着重描写和阐述存在量子相变的一些最简单的相互作用系统的物理性质。全书大部分均忽略了无序效应，而把注意力集中在这样一些系统在非零温度下的动力学性质，深入讨论了以非弹性碰撞为主的量子动力学及输运过程。
本书为英文版！

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell and Einstein as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Together the lectures in this volume, originally presented on the occasion of the dedication ceremony for a plaque commemorating Dirac in Westminster Abbey, give a unique insight into the relationship between Dirac's character and his scientific achievements. The text begins with the dedication address given by Stephen Hawking at the ceremony. Then Abraham Pais describes Dirac as a person and his approach to his work. Maurice Jacob explains how Dirac was led to introduce the concept of antimatter, and its central role in modern particle physics and cosmology, followed by an account by David Olive of the origin and enduring influence of Dirac's work on magnetic monopoles. Finally, Sir Michael Atiyah explains the deep and widespread significance of the Dirac equation in mathematics.

Linear algebra is something all mathematics undergraduates and many other students, in subjects ranging from engineering to economics, have to learn. The fifth edition of this hugely successful textbook retains all the qualities of earlier editions, while at the same time seeing numerous minor improvements and major additions. The latter include: • A new chapter on singular values and singular vectors, including ways to analyze a matrix of data • A revised chapter on computing in linear algebra, with professional-level algorithms and code that can be downloaded for a variety of languages • A new section on linear algebra and cryptography • A new chapter on linear algebra in probability and statistics. A dedicated and active website also offers solutions to exercises as well as new exercises from many different sources (including practice problems, exams, and development of textbook examples), plus codes in MATLAB®, Julia, and Python.

Statistics lectures have been a source of much bewilderment and frustration for generations of students. This book attempts to remedy the situation by expounding a logical and unified approach to the whole subject of data analysis.
This text is intended as a tutorial guide for senior undergraduates and research students in science and engineering. After explaining the basic principles of Bayesian probability theory, their use is illustrated with a variety of examples ranging from elementary parameter estimation to image processing. Other topics covered include reliability analysis, multivariate optimization, least-squares and maximum likelihood, error-propagation, hypothesis testing, maximum entropy and experimental design.
The Second Edition of this successful tutorial book contains a new chapter on extensions to the ubiquitous least-squares procedure, allowing for the straightforward handling of outliers and unknown correlated noise, and a cutting-edge contribution from John Skilling on a novel numerical technique for Bayesian computation called 'nested sampling'.

《超弦理论(第1卷)》由世界图书出版公司北京公司和剑桥大学出版社合作出版。《超弦理论(第1卷)》任何部分之文字及图片，未经出版者书面许可，不得用任何方式抄袭、节录或翻印。

Recent years have brought a revival of work on string theory, which has been a source of fascination since its origins nearly twenty years ago.There seems to be a widely perceived need for a systematic, pedagogical exposition of the present state of knowledge about string theory. We hope that this book will help to meet this need. To give a comprehensive account of such a vast topic as string theory would scarcely be possible,even in two volumes with the length to which these have grown. Indeed,we have had to omit many important subjects, while treating others only sketchily. String field theory is omitted entirely (though the subject of chapter 11 is closely related to light-cone string field theory). Conformal field theory is not developed systematically, though much of the background material needed to understand recent papers on this subject is presented in chapter 3 and elsewhere.

The principles of gauge symmetry and quantization are fundamental to modern understanding of the laws of electromagnetism, weak and strong subatomic forces and the theory of general relativity. Ideal for graduate students and researchers in theoretical and mathematical physics, this unique book provides a systematic introduction to Hamiltonian mechanics of systems with gauge symmetry. The book reveals how gauge symmetry may lead to a non-trivial geometry of the physical phase space and studies its effect on quantum dynamics by path integral methods. It also covers aspects of Hamiltonian path integral formalism in detail, along with a number of related topics such as the theory of canonical transformations on phase space supermanifolds, non-commutativity of canonical quantization and elimination of non-physical variables. The discussion is accompanied by numerous detailed examples of dynamical models with gauge symmetries, clearly illustrating the key concepts.

This is a lucid and informative book that makes the seemingly daunting subject of quantum physics accessible, appealing, and exciting. Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics - it informs our understanding of everything from matter in its smallest dimensions to the universe as a whole. But for many, quantum theory remains an impenetrable enigma. Drawing on the unrivalled expertise of a Nobel Laureate and theoretical physicist, "Quantum Physics for Poets" is a lucid and informative volume that makes this often daunting subject accessible, appealing, and exciting. Exploring every aspect of quantum physics - from the first experiments, through the strange behaviour of 'particles' that can be in many places at once, to the latest developments, including quantum string theory - this book renders even the most profound reaches of quantum theory understandable.

《蛋白质物理》是一部蛋白质物理学研究领域的系统性著作，由享誉世界的俄罗斯科学家A.V.芬克尔施泰因和O.B.普季岑根据其为俄罗斯科学院和莫斯科大学的学生讲授蛋白质物理课程时的讲义撰写而成，具有很高的理论和学术价值。《蛋白质物理》内容广泛，包括了蛋白质的结构分类、变性与折叠、结构预测与设计等几个部分，其主旨是以物理学（特别是统计物理和热力学）的观点和方法来研究与蛋白质相关的问题。《蛋白质物理》循序渐进，深入浅出，不仅以简明易懂的语言和简繁适当的数学估算介绍了与蛋白质相关的基础问题，而且对本领域中的重点研究问题都高屋建瓴地予以严谨的分析和讨论，在研究思想上有很强的指导性和启发性。《蛋白质物理》英文版已在美、英、德等国多所大学采用为相关课程的教材。