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Book Reviews

Book reviews

Pages 417-424 | Published online: 20 Aug 2006
 

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Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students By R. SHANKAR 1995, US$47·50 (hbk), xv+365. Plenum, ISBN 0306450356. Scope: textbook. Level: first and second-year undergraduate.

Crystal Growth for Beginners: Fundamentals of Nucleation, Crystal Growth and Epitaxy By I. V. MARKOV 1995, $48·00 (hbk), pp. xii + 422. World Scientific, ISBN 9810215312. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

From Alchemy to Quarks: The Study of Physics as a Liberal Art By S. L. GLASHOW 1994, £39·50 (hbk), pp. xxvi + 692, Brooks-Cole, ISBN 0534166563. Scope: textbook. Level: non-scientific undergraduate.

Group Theory: An Intuitive Approach By R. MIRMAN 1995, £37·00, (hbk), pp. xxxvii + 451. World Scientific, ISBN 9810221835. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics, fourth edition By J. R. MEYER-ARENDT 1995, £22·95 (hbk), pp. xv + 431. Prentice-Hall, ISBN 013124356 X. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate.

Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy By C. R. KITCHIN 1995, £65·00, US$130·00 (pbk), pp. xi + 272. Institute of Physics, ISBN 0750303468. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and practising astronomers.

Optical Metrology, second edition By K. J. GASVIK 1995, £29·95 (pbk), pp. viii + 321. Wiley, ISBN 0471955280. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

Physics by Enquiry: An Introduction to Physics and the Physical Sciences, Vols. I and II By L. C. MCDERMOTT, with P. S. SHAFFER, K. L. ROSENQUIST and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington. 1996, £38·00 (pbk), pp. ix + 823. ISBN 071548707. (Also available as separate volumes at £18·00 each.) Vol I, ISBN 047114440-1. Vol. 11, ISBN 047114441 X. Scope: textbook. Level: teacher training for physics teaching.

Stability, Instability and Chaos: An Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Diflerential Equations, in the series Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics By P. GLENDINNING 1994, £45·00, US$69·95 (hbk), £17·95, US$29·95 (pbk), pp. xiii + 388. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521425662. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate.

The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol I, Foundations By S. WEINBERG 1995, £35·00, US$49·95 (hbk), pp. xxvi + 609. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521550017. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Wave Scattering jiom Rough Surfaces By A. G. VORONOVICH 1994, DM148·00, sFr148·00 (hbk), pp. viii + 228. Springer, ISBN 3540574395. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

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