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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joseph polchinski”
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  • Memories of a Theoretical Physicist

    A Journey across the Landscape of Strings, Black Holes, and the Multiverse

    by Joseph Polchinski ...
    A groundbreaking theoretical physicist traces his career, reflecting on the successes and failures, triumphs and insecurities of a life cut short by cancer.The groundbreaking theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski explained the genesis of his memoir this way: “Having only two bodies of knowledge, myself and physics, I decided to write an autobiography about my development as a theoretical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • String Theory: Volume 2, Superstring Theory and Beyond

    by Joseph Polchinski ...
    Series series Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
    String Theory, first published in 1998, comprises two volumes which provide a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to supersymmetric string theories and presents the important advances of recent years. The first three chapters introduce the type I, type II, and heterototic superstring theories and their interactions. The next two chapters present ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • String Theory: Volume 1, An Introduction to the Bosonic String

    by Joseph Polchinski ...
    Series series Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
    String Theory comprises two volumes which give a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 1, first published in 1998, provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string. The first four chapters introduce the central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory and of the Polyakov path integral, and the covariant quantization of the string. The next three ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • New Frontiers In Fields And Strings (Tasi 2015) - Proceedings Of The 2015 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics

    by Joseph Polchinski, Pedro Vieira, Oliver Dewolfe ...
    This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2015 summer school, 'New Frontiers in Fields and Strings', held at the University of Colorado Boulder in June 2015. The school focused on topics in theoretical physics of interest to contemporary researchers in quantum field theory and string theory. The lectures are accessible to graduate students in the initial stages of their ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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    at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC

    by Giuliano Gustavino ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This thesis provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the search for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the mono-jet final state, using the first 3.2 fb-1 of data collected at the centre of mass energy of colliding protons of 13~TeV recorded in the ATLAS experiment at LHC.The results are interpreted as limits in different theoretical contexts such as compressed ... Read more

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  • Warped Passages

    Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

    by Lisa Randall ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A particle physicist's "engaging and remarkably clear" look at the dimensions that may exist beyond the ones we know ( The New York Times Book Review).The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familiar three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now ... Read more

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  • Lost in Math

    How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

    by Sabine Hossenfelder ...
    In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine ... Read more

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  • The Particle at the End of the Universe

    How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

    by Sean Carroll ...
    Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books“A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of BeingThe Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll ... Read more

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  • The 4% Universe

    Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

    by Richard Panek ...
    The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. The rest—96 percent of the universe—is completely unknown.Richard Panek ... Read more

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  • Endless Universe

    Beyond the Big Bang

    by Paul J. Steinhardt, Neil Turok ...
    **Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street JournalThe Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang into being about 14 billion years ago in a hot, expanding fireball of nearly infinite density. Over the last three ... Read more

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  • Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing

    Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009

    Edited by Laurent Lellouch, Rainer Sommer, Benjamin Svetitsky, Anastassios Vladikas, Leticia F. Cugliandolo ...
    Series series Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
    The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations. ... Read more

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  • Existential Physics

    A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

    by Sabine Hossenfelder ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal“Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine**From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s ... Read more

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