| Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies Contributor(s): Shifman, Misha (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9814436569 ISBN-13: 9789814436564 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $64.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Science | History |
| Dewey: 530.15 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.90 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School -- Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm -- 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 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR. |