THIS well-known text-book has been largely rewritten and enlarged for the present fourth edition. In the preface Prof. Bovey states that a number of fresh examples, mostly drawn from actual practice, ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is ...

Physicists speak of the world as being made of particles and force fields, but it is not at all clear what particles and force fields actually are in the quantum realm. The world may instead consist ...

Edward Witten reflects on the meaning of dualities in physics and math, emergent space-time, and the pursuit of a complete description of nature. Among the brilliant theorists cloistered in the quiet ...