Under The Spell Of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies (Hardcover)

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School - Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm - are being published in English for the first time.The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.

General

Imprint:	World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	September 2013
Editors:	Misha Shifman
Dimensions:	231 x 145 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	560
ISBN-13:	978-981-4436-55-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
LSN:	981-4436-55-0
Barcode:	9789814436557

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