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Physics, Nanoscience, and Complexity This section contains links to textbooks, books, and articles in digital libraries of several publishers (Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, etc.). Most links will work without login on any campus (or remotely using the institution’s VPN) where the institution (company) subscribes to those digital libraries. For De Gruyter and the associated university presses (Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc.) you may have to go through your institution’s library portal first. A red title indicates an excellent item, and a blue title indicates a very good (often introductory) item. A purple year of publication is a warning sign. Titles of Open Access (free access) items are colored green. The library is being converted to conform to the university virtual library model that I developed. This section of the library was updated on 06 September 2021. Professor Joseph Vaisman Computer Science and Engineering Department NYU Tandon School of Engineering This section (and the library as a whole) is a free resource published under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license: You can share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following terms: Attribution, NonCommercial, and NoDerivatives. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Copyright 2021 Joseph Vaisman Table of Contents Food for Thought Biographies, Opinions, & Works Books Articles Philip W. Anderson John Stewart Bell Hans Bethe David Bohm Niels Bohr Ludwig Boltzmann Paul Dirac Albert Einstein Enrico Fermi Richard Feynman Otto Hahn Werner Heisenberg P.L. Kapitza L.D. Landau Ernst Mach Ettore Majorana Lise Meitner John von Neumann Wolfgang Pauli Max Planck Erwin Schrödinger Julian Schwinger John Archibald Wheeler Eugene Wigner Introduction to Physics Experimentation & Measurement Mathematics for Physicists The Unreasonable Effectiveness of … It’s about time Electricity and Magnetism Modern Physics Quantum Mechanics & Beyond Introductory and Popular Books Articles Debates and Disagreements Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics Quantum Field Theory Quantum Information & Quantum Computing Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics Books Articles Web Plasma Physics Solid State Physics Optics and Lasers Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Nano-Optics and Optical Antennas Plasmonics Materials Science Superconductivity Graphene More Mathematics Computational Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Thoughts, Ideas, and Opinions People and Places Complexity Reference Material Odds & Ends Food for Thought ===================================== Books ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers Konstantin K. Likharev (Editor) Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-63332-5 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5 100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand: Integrated Technical Treatment E. B. Manoukian Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-51081-7 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51081-7 Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science Jimena Canales Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-0-691-18607-8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780691186078 Astroparticle Physics; Second Edition Claus Grupen Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-27339-2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27339-2 Particle Physics Reference Library; Volume 1: Theory and Experiments Herwig Schopper (Editor) Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-38207-0 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38207-0 Particle Physics Reference Library; Volume 2: Detectors for Particles and Radiation Christian W. Fabjan and Herwig Schopper (Editors) Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-35318-6 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35318-6 Particle Physics Reference Library; Volume 3: Accelerators and Colliders Stephen Myers and Herwig Schopper (Editors) Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-34245-6 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34245-6 Discovery Beyond the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics James D. Wells Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-38204-9 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38204-9 Particles, Fields, Quanta: From Quantum Mechanics to the Standard Model of Particle Physics Gerhard Ecker Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-14479-1 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14479 Enjoy Our Universe: You Have No Other Choice Alvaro De Rújula Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780198817802 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817802.001.0001 Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers Konstantin K. Likharev (Editor) Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-63332-5 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5 Abstraction in Modern Science Werner Karl Heisenberg This lecture was presented by Werner Karl Heisenbergr as the Nishina Memorial Lecture at Asahi Lecture Hall (Tokyo) on April 26, 1967. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-77056-5_1 Nishina Memorial Lectures: Creators of Modern Physics Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-4-431-77056-5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-77056-5 Adventure Diffusion: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas Gero Vogl Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-0-030-04681-1 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04681-1 Antimatter: What It Is and Why It's Important in Physics and Everyday Life Beatriz Gato-Rivera Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-67791-6 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67791-6 Beyond Classical Physics Mark A. Cunningham Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-63160-8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63160-8 A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century B.G. Sidharth (Editor) Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-4360-4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4360-4 Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy Max Jammer Princeton University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-4008-2378-9 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400823789 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ss4c Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics Charis Anastopoulos Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-22249-3 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780691222493 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv17db3pg Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe Roger Penrose Princeton University Press, 2016, eISBN 978-1-4008-8028-7 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc775bn https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400880287 The Nature of Space and Time; With a new afterword by the authors Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose Princeton University Press, 1996, eISBN 978-1-4008-3474-7 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7szq2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400834747 Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law Michael Munowitz Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780195167375 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167375.001.0001 Laws of Nature Peter Mittelstaedt and Paul A. Weingartner Springer, 2019 (2015), ISBN 3-540-28303-X https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28303-X Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community J. Robert Oppenheimer Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 9781400860289 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781400860289 Determinism and Free Will: New Insights from Physics, Philosophy, and Theology Fabio Scardigli, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Emanuele Severino, and Piero Coda Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-05505-9 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05505-9 The Discovery of Isotopes: A Complete Compilation Michael Thoennessen Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-31763-2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31763-2 Do Colors Exist? And Other Profound Physics Questions Seth Stannard Cottrell Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-64361-8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64361-8 The Far Horizons of Time: Time and Mind in the Universe H. Chris Ransford Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-044028-7 http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/460116 Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics A. Zee Princeton University Press, 2007 (1986), eISBN 978-1-4008-7450-7 http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16xwc37 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400874507 Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything David D. Nolte Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780198805847 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805847.001.0001 How the Great Scientists Reasoned Gary G. Tibbetts Elsevier, 2013, ISBN 978-0-12-398498-2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/C2011-0-07815-8 How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small Ivo van Vulpen Yale University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780300252460 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300252460/html It From Bit or Bit From It? – On Physics and Information Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, and Zeeya Merali (Editors) Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-12946-4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12946-4 Mind and the Cosmic Order: How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics Charles Pinter Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-50083-2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2 The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir Princeton University Press, 2008, eISBN 978-1-4008-3571-3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sh1q https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400835713 The Neutrino Story: One Tiny Particle’s Grand Role in the Cosmos Rabindra N. Mohapatra Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-51846-2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51846-2 Once Can Be Enough: Decisive Experiments, No Replication Required Allan Franklin and Ronald Laymon Springer, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-62565-8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62565-8 On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science David Goodstein Princeton University Press,
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