The book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman path integrals. These provide a manifestly ...
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For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far ...
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The year 2005, which marked the 100th anniversary of the 'annus mirabilis', the year in which Albert Einstein published ...
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This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black ...
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The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in ...
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This book describes the enormous capabilities of ALMA, the state of the project, and most notably the scientific prospects ...
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This book serves as a concise primer introducing the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP). ...
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This book describes solar sails, how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space in an easily readable ...
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Solar System Astrophysics: A Text for the Science of Planetary Systems covers the field of solar system astrophysics beginning ...
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Solar System Astrophysics opens with coverage of the atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth, Venus and ...
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This book traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man’s place in ...
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The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...
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Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...
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This volume, dedicated to Prof. Gabriele Veneziano on the occasion of his retirement from CERN, starts as a broad historico-scientific ...
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String Theory is our current best candidate for the unification of all fundamental forces, including gravity, in a consistent ...
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The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF ...
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This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...
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The last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
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The book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...
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This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
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