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This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today. In a form accessible to the interested general physicist, it covers topics ranging from the use of field-theoretical methods in different contexts via duality symmetries between various field theories, to the Ads/CFT correspondence and cosmology.

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The Weak Interaction: Its History and Impact on Physics (T D Lee); Electron Orbits and Superconductivity of Carbon 60 (T D Lee); The Power of Duality - Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory (N Seiberg); String Theory as a Universal Language (A M Polyakov); The Cosmological Tests (P J E Peebles); Anti-de-Sitter Space, Thermal Phase Transition, and Confinement in Gauge Theories (E Witten); Can There Be Physics Without Experiments? Challenges and Pitfalls (G 't Hooft).

Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures, The (Volume 3)

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      Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/07/2001
      ISBN13: 9789810246921, 978-9810246921
      ISBN10: 9810246927

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today. In a form accessible to the interested general physicist, it covers topics ranging from the use of field-theoretical methods in different contexts via duality symmetries between various field theories, to the Ads/CFT correspondence and cosmology.

      Table of Contents
      The Weak Interaction: Its History and Impact on Physics (T D Lee); Electron Orbits and Superconductivity of Carbon 60 (T D Lee); The Power of Duality - Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory (N Seiberg); String Theory as a Universal Language (A M Polyakov); The Cosmological Tests (P J E Peebles); Anti-de-Sitter Space, Thermal Phase Transition, and Confinement in Gauge Theories (E Witten); Can There Be Physics Without Experiments? Challenges and Pitfalls (G 't Hooft).

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