Kerson Huang Books

This book contains a dramatic and revealing translation of this ancient classic into English. The Chinese original is set side-by-side with the translation. Two things set this work apart from other translated versions. First, archeological findings are used to uncover the meaning of passages obscured for thousands of years. Second, it preserves the flavor of the original in a poetic rendition. An introductory part of this book provides the historical and philosophical background to the I Ching. The story is told of the ancient Chinese civilization, pointing out events and figures mentioned in the I Ching. The undisguised face of the I Ching will appeal to the modern reader, who will read it in his or her own individual way, as poetry, as discoverer of self, or as soothsayer. It is in the grand tradition of the I Ching for different people to see different things. To Confucius, who was born in 550 B.C., it was a source of ethics. To Leibnitz, the eighteenth-century inventor of calculus, it was the essence of binary mathematics. To Jung Freud's rival in psychology, it was an explorer of the unconscious. To some Wall Streeters, it predicts the stock market. This revised edition includes a new chapter on a historical perspective, and other additions, changes and minor reformatting.

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields.

Focusing on the historic significance of particle physics during a pivotal moment in the development of the Standard Model, this collection features papers from a 1974 symposium at MIT honoring Victor Weisskopf. Renowned scientists such as Hans Bethe, Julian Schwinger, and Murray Gell-Mann contribute insights on experiments revealing quarks. Additionally, the book includes a commentary by K Huang, providing further context to the discussions and advancements in the field.

The book explores a groundbreaking theory that conceptualizes the universe as a quantum superfluid, delving into the origins of dark energy and dark matter. It integrates various fields of physics, offering a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts within each discipline. The unique approach bridges physical and mathematical principles, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the universe's fundamental nature.

"A new, updated and enhanced edition of the classic work, which was welcomed for its general approach and self-sustaining organization of the chapters. Written by a highly respected textbook writer and researcher, this book has a more general scope and adopts a more practical approach than other books. It includes applications of condensed matter physics, first developing traditional concepts, including Feynman graphs, before moving on to such key topics as functional integrals, statistical mechanics and Wilson's renormalization group. The author takes care to explain the connection between the latter and conventional perturbative renormalization. Due to the rapid advance and increase in importance of low dimensional systems, this second edition fills a gap in the market with its added discussions of low dimensional systems, including one-dimensional conductors."--Publisher's website

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