Unification of Fundamental Forces

The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture

AvAbdus Salam

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, died in 1984. Dirac's college, St John's of Cambridge, generously endowed annual lectures to be held at Cambridge University in his memory. This 1990 volume includes an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture presented by Abdus Salam, in addition to two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and by Werner Heisenberg.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-10-06
Mått:126 x 204 x 10 mm
Vikt:183 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare:JohnC. Taylor
ISBN:9780521020787

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"This engaging little book consists mainly of a personal history by Abdus Salam of unification of physics, supplemented by two contrasting lectures by Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac." Physics Today

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword John C. Taylor; 1. Unification of fundamental forces Abdus Salam; 2. History unfolding: an introduction to the two 1968 lectures by W. Heisenberg and P. A. M. Dirac Abdus Salam; 3. Theory, criticism, and a philosophy Werner Heisenberg; 4. Methods in theoretical physics Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac.