A. Zee, Author, Anthony Zee, Author Collier Books $9.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-02-040911-3
``Zee's exposition of the intuitive use by modern theoretical physicists of the concept of symmetry . . . in order to fathom nature's laws is superb scientific reading,'' lauded PW , warning that this is challenging material even for initiates. (Jan.
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Anthony Zee, Author, A. Zee, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-02-633440-2
On Einstein's 76th (and last) birthday, a neighbor gave him a homemade toy that exemplified a basic truth about gravity. Starting with this ball-and-cup contraption, the author of Fearful Symmetry uses gravity as a springboard to discuss phenomena...
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Anthony Zee. Princeton Univ, $32 (344p) ISBN 978-0-691-22580-7
Zee (Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible), a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, serves up a muddled exploration of the crucial ideas and discoveries underpinning contemporary theoretical physics. Some will be...
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