M Shifman: 4 books
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein
Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion...
by M Shifman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch–Austrian–German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear...
Standing Together in Troubled Times
Unpublished Letters by Pauli, Einstein, Franck and Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
"This book is fascinating not only because through the various documents, readers get to know about the predicament and concerns of some of the (mostly) Germanic physicists of the time, but also because, for the first time, the work offers previously unpublished documentation. The presentation...
Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory
A Lecture Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Since the advent of Yang–Mills theories and supersymmetry in the 1970s, quantum field theory - the basis of the modern description of physical phenomena at the fundamental level - has undergone revolutionary developments. This is the first systematic and comprehensive text devoted specifically to...