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Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Fearful Symmetry The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics Author:A. Zee Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, t... more »he book describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics. In the end, we stand in awe before the grand vision of modern physics -- one of the greatest chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.
Fearful Symmetry, first published in 1986, includes in this reprint a new preface and afterword by the author.
A. Zee is Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Institute for Advanced Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.« less