Download or read book Under the Spell of Landau written by M. Shifman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School OCo Landau, Anselm, Gribov, Zeldovich, Kirzhnits, Migdal, Ter-Martirosyan and Larkin OCo are being published in English for the first time.The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950sOCo70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the OC Iron CurtainOCO which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.
Download or read book A Mind Over Matter written by Andrew Zangwill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century. Anderson (1923-2020) was a theoretician who specialized in the physics of matter, including window glass and metals, magnets and semiconductors, liquid crystals and superconductors. More than any other single person, Anderson transformed the patchwork subject of solid-state physics into the deep, subtle, and coherent discipline known today as condensed matter physics. Among his many world-class research achievements, Anderson discovered an aspect of wave physics that had been missed by all previous scientists going back to Isaac Newton. He became a public figure when he testified before Congress to oppose its funding of an expensive project intended exclusively for particle physics research. Over the years, he published many articles designed to influence a broad audience about issues where science impacted public policy and culture. Anderson grew up in the American mid-west, was educated at Harvard, and rose to the pinnacle of his profession during the first decade of his thirty-five career as a theoretical physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Almost uniquely, he spent many years working half-time as a professor at the University of Cambridge and at Princeton University. The outspoken Anderson enjoyed broad influence outside of physics when he helped develop and champion the concepts of emergence and complexity as organizing principles to help attack very difficult problems in technically challenging disciplines.
Download or read book Digestible Quantum Field Theory written by Andrei Smilga and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an intermediate level treatment of quantum field theory, appropriate to a reader with a first degree in physics and a working knowledge of special relativity and quantum mechanics. It aims to give the reader some understanding of what QFT is all about, without delving deep into actual calculations of Feynman diagrams or similar. The author serves up a seven‐course menu, which begins with a brief introductory Aperitif. This is followed by the Hors d'oeuvres, which set the scene with a broad survey of the Universe, its theoretical description, and how the ideas of QFT developed during the last century. In the next course, the Art of Cooking, the author recaps on some basic facts of analytical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics and also presents some nutritious “extras” in mathematics (group theory at the elementary level) and in physics (theory of scattering). After these preparations, the reader should have a good appetite for the Entrées ‐ the central par t of the book where the Standard Model is described and explained. After Trou Normand, the restive pause including human stories about physicists and no formulas, the author serves the Dessert, devoted to supersymmetry (a very beautiful theory that is still awaiting a direct experimental confirmation), to general relativity and to the mystery of quantum gravity.
Download or read book Pomeranchuk 100 written by Alexander Gorsky and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides extended versions of the talks given at the memorial Pomeranchuk-100 Conference, June 5–6, held in the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia and the review of the 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize Winner — Mikhail Shifman. It shall provide a broad review of the current status of the research in the high energy physics and astrophysics. Contents:Douglas Approach to Liouville Minimal Gravity (A Belavin and B Mukhametzhanov)Mirror Matter and Other Models for Dark Matter (S Blinnikov)Cosmology: From Pomeranchuk to the Present Day (A Dolgov)Hadron Structure and Elastic Scattering (I Dremin)RG Limit Cycles (K Bulycheva and A Gorsky)Composite Systems in Magnetic Field: From Hadrons to Hydrogen Atom (B Kerbikov)Gravitational Four-Fermion Interaction in the Early Universe (I Khriplovich and A Rudenko)Non-Perturbative Schwinger–Dyson Equations: From BPS/CFT Correspondence to the Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory (N Nekrasov)Understanding Chiral Magnetic Effect (V Shevchenko)A New Method for Solving the Z > 137 Problem and for Determination of Energy Levels of Hydrogen-Like Atoms (V Neznamov and I Safronov)Two-Dimensional Sigma Models Related to Non-Abelian Strings in Super-Yang-Mills (M Shifman and A Yung)Vacuum Structure in 3d Supersymmetric Gauge Theories (A Smilga)Critical Nuclei in a Superstrong Magnetic Field (S Godunov and M Vysotsky)Anomaly and Long-Range Forces (V Kirilin, A Sadofyev and V Zakharov)Localization at Large N (J Russo and K Zarembo) Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics; experts in theoretical physics. Key Features:It provides a unique picture of the different aspects of the fundamental physicsAuthored by first class authors of the reviews in high energy physics and astrophysicsThe presentation is at the level suitable for the advanced graduate studentsKeywords:Quantum Field Theory;String Theory;Gauge/String Duality;Quantum Electrodynamics;Tunneling Phenomena;Structure of Vacuum;Instantons;Black Holes;Inflation;Charge Screening;Integrability;Renormalization;Regge Theory
Download or read book The Left Periphery written by Anne Sturgeon and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and analysis of these constructions with respect to their syntactic behavior, discourse function and prosody. Following recent work on the Syntax-Phonology interface, prosody in these constructions is shown to interact in interesting ways with the narrow syntax. Unexpected patterns of left-edge resumption are explained through the role of the PF component of the grammar.
Download or read book The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis written by Güliz Güneş and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popular 'silent structure' accounts of ellipsis, and investigate the question of when linguistic material becomes silenced during the derivation and realization of syntactic structure. The book begins with a detailed introduction from the editors that outlines the current generative syntactic approaches to the derivational timing of ellipsis. In the chapters that follow, internationally-recognized experts in the field address key topics including structure building, the architecture of grammar, the interaction of distinct modules with syntax, the order of operations in the post-syntactic component, and constraints on binding relations. The authors also present novel arguments for and against the derivational approaches to ellipsis, the licensing of ellipsis, and phonological constraints on elliptical sentences. The findings, based on data from English and other languages such as Armenian, Italo-Romance, Ossetic, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Turkish, facilitate a deeper understanding of the interaction between syntax and the neighbouring modules in the formation of elliptical utterances.
Download or read book Picturing Ourselves written by Linda Haverty Rugg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted (unsuccessfully) to integrate photographs into their autobiographies. While Twain encouraged photographers, he was wary of fakery and kept a fierce watch on the distribution of his photographic image. Strindberg, believing that photographs had occult power, preferred to photograph himself. Because of their experiences under National Socialism, Walter Benjamin and Christa Wolf feared the dangerously objectifying power of photographs and omitted them from their autobiographical writings. Yet Benjamin used them in his photographic conception of history, which had its testing ground in his often-ignored Berliner Kindheit um 1900. And Christa Wolf's narrator in Patterns of Childhood attempts to reclaim her childhood from the Nazis by reconstructing mental images of lost family photographs. Confronted with multiple and conflicting images of themselves, all four of these writers are torn between the knowledge that texts, photographs, and indeed selves are haunted by undecidability and the desire for the returned glance of a single self.
Download or read book Anneliese Landau s Life in Music Nazi Germany to migr California written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and moving account of the life of Anneliese Landau, who, in Nazi Germany and later in émigré California, fought against prejudice to do notable work in music.
Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by Sir Max Beerbohm and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by Max Beerbohm and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.
Download or read book Control as Movement written by Cedric Boeckx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually, theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.
Download or read book Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb written by Johannes Hein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides the first cross-linguistic study of repair strategies in verbal fronting, verb doubling and do-support, addressing both typological properties and theoretical aspects. First, it brings together data hitherto scattered across the empirical and theoretical literature and adds newly collected data from two African languages. For each of the 47 languages, the properties of verbal fronting are documented in detail. Based on this sample, the empirical part establishes two novel typological generalizations regarding the interaction between the size of the fronted category and the type of repair strategy used. The first of these identifies a systematic typological gap: No language that allows both verb and verb phrase fronting has do-support with the former and verb doubling with the latter. In the theoretical part, it is shown that previous theories of verb doubling/do-support are unable to account for both generalizations. A new approach within the Copy Theory of the Minimalist Framework is developed, that rests on the interaction of head movement, copy deletion, and the properties of different movement types. The book thus provides the first comprehensive empirical and theoretical overview of repair patterns in verbal fronting.
Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences written by Ari Ben-Menahem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 6070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.
Download or read book Agreement and Head Movement written by Ian G. Roberts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax.
Download or read book Coulomb and Interference Effects in Small Electronic Structures written by D. C. Glattli and published by Atlantica Séguier Frontières. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Physics written by L D Landau and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents, at a level suitable for undergraduates and technical college students, the basic physical theory of mechanics and the molecular structure of matter. The material contained in the work should correspond quite closely to courses of lectures given to undergraduate students of physics in Britain and America.
Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by M. Beerbohm and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1954 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
