{"product_id":"9789814449038","title":"Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II: With Commentaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945–1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971–2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeech About the Great Wall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC N Yang Discusses Physics in People's Republic of China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA de Gaulle-Like Trip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition of Self-Duality for SU(2) Gauge Fields on Euclidean Four-Dimensional Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneralization of Dirac's Monopole to SU\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003e Gauge Fields\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEinstein and the Physics of the Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes Violation of Microscopic Time-Reversal Invariance Lead to the Possibility of Entropy Decrease?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoseph Mayer and Statistical Mechanics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlux Quantization, A Personal Reminiscence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Discrete Symmetries P, T and C\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGauge Fields, Electromagnetism and the Bohm-Aharonov Effect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpin of Electrons, Hadrons and Nuclei\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHermann Weyl's Contribution to Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSquare Root of Minus One, Complex Phases and Erwin Schrödinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneralization of Sturm-Liouville Theory to a System of Ordinary Differential Equations with Dirac Type Spectrum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC Y Chao, Pair Creation and Pair Annihilation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA One-Dimensional \u003ci\u003eN\u003c\/i\u003e Fermion Problem with Factorized \u003ci\u003eS\u003c\/i\u003e Matrix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJourney Through Statistical Mechanics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModern Physics and Warm Friendship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSO\u003csub\u003e4\u003c\/sub\u003e Symmetry in a Hubbard Model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSymmetry and Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eS S Chern and I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflections on the Development of Theoretical Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeng Jiaxian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJulian Schwinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePath Crossings with Lars Onsager\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExact Solution of the Vibration Problem for the Carbon-60 Molecule\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather and I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeech After Banquet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriteup Upon Hearing of Mills' Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnrico Fermi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWerner Heisenberg (1901–1976)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBanquet Speech, June 2002\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Theoretical Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase Factor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGauge Invariance and Interactions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlbert Einstein: Opportunity and Perception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Klein-Nishina Formula \u0026amp; Quantum Electrodynamics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePseudopotential Method and Dilute Hard “Sphere” Bose Gas in Dimensions 2, 4 and 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGround State of Fermions in a 1D Trap with δ Function Interaction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBanquet Speech at the Singapore Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann on His 80th Birthday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpin 1\/2 Fermions in 1D Harmonic Trap with Repulsive Delta Function Interparticle Interaction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne-Dimensional ω-Component Fermions and Bosons with Repulsive Delta Function Interaction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuantum Numbers, Chern Classes, and a Bodhisattva\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Experience as a Student and Researcher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFermi's β-Decay Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTopology and Gauge Theory in Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Reaching Age Ninety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Graduate students and researchers in particle physics and statistical physics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144248869104,"sku":"9789814449038","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814449038_p0.jpg?v=1763691344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814449038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}