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Preface v
Chapter 1 Phases 1
1.1 Nye, J. F., & Berry, M. V., 1974 'Dislocations in wave trains', Proc. R. Soc. A 336, 165-190 (B34) 6
1.2 Berry, M. V., Chambers, R. G., Large, M. D., Upstill, C, & Walmsley, J. C, 1980 'Wavefront dislocations in the Aharonov-Bohm effect and its water wave analogue', Eur. J. Phys. 1, 154-162 (B96) 32
1.3 Berry, M. V., 1998 'Much ado about nothing: optical dislocation lines (phase singularities, zeros, vortices…)', in Singular optics (ed: Soskin, M. S.) Frunzenskoe: Crimea, SPIE 3487, 1-5 (B296) 42
1.4 Berry, M. V., 2001 'Geometry of phase and polarization singularities, illustrated by edge diffraction and the tides', in Second International Conference on Singular Optics (Optical Vortices): Fundamentals and Applications, Bellingham: Washington, SPIE 4403, 1-12 (B330) 47
1.5 Berry, M. V., & Dennis, M. R., 2001 'Knotted and linked phase singularities in monochromatic waves', Proc. R. Soc. A 457, 2251-2263 (B332) 59
1.6 Berry, M. V., 1984 'Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes', Proc. R. Soc. A 392, 45-57 (B120) 72
1.7 Berry, M. V., 2010 'Geometric phase memories', Nature Physics 6, 148-150 (B420) 85
1.8 Berry, M. V., & Robbins, J. M., 1997 'Indistinguishability for quantum particles: spin, statistics and the geometric phase', Proc. R. Soc. A 453, 1771-1790 (B286) 88
1.9 Berry, M. V., & Robbins, J. M., 2000 'Quantum Indistinguishability: Spin-statistics without Relativity or Field Theory?', in Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations, (eds: R, C. Hilborn & G. M. Tino), American Institute of Physics CP545, 3-15 (B322) 108
Chapter 2 Caustics and related Optics 121
2.1 Berry, M. V, 1975 'Cusped rainbows and incoherence effects in the rippling-mirror model for particle scattering from surfaces', J. Phys. A 8, 566-584 (B41) 126
2.2 Berry, M. V., 1976 'Waves and Thom's theorem', Advances in Physics 25, 1-26 (B49) 147
2.3 Berry, M. V., 1997 'Slippery as an eel', Review of 'The Fire Within the Eye by David Park, Physics World 10 (December), 41-42 (B289) 173
2.4 Berry, M. V., 2002 'Deconstructing rainbows', Review of 'The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth and Science' by Raymond L. Lee and Alastair B. Fraser, Physics World 15 (No. 11), 49 (B349) 175
2.5 Berry, M. V., 2000 'Millennium essay: Making waves in physics. Three wave singularities from the miraculous 1830s', Nature 403 (6 January), 21 (B314) 176
2.6 Berry, M. V., Bhandari, R., & Klein, S., 1999 'Black plastic sandwiches demonstrating biaxial optical anisotropy', Eur. J. Phys. 20, 1-14 (B303) 177
2.7 Berry, M. V., & Dennis, M. R., 2004 'Black polarization sandwiches are square roots of zero', J. Optics. A 6, S24-S25 (B361) 191
2.8 Berry, M. V., & Jeffrey, M. R., 2007 'Conical diffraction: Hamilton's diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics', Progress in Optics 50, 13-50. (B400) 193
2.9 Berry, M. V., Marzoli, I., & Schleich, W, 2001 'Quantum carpets, carpets of light', Physics World (June), 39-44. (B329) 231
2.10 Berry, M. V., 1972 'Reflections on a Christmas-tree bauble', Physics Education 7, 1-6 (B22) 237
2.11 Berry, M. V., 2006 'Oriental magic mirrors and the Laplacian image', Eur. J. Phys. 27, 109-118 (B383) 243
2.12 Berry M. V., 2015 'Nature's optics and our understanding of light', Contemporary Physics (celebrating the International Year of Eight) 56, 2-16 (B476) 253
2.13 Berry, Michael, 2015 'Chasing the Silver Dragon', Physics World (July), 45-47 (B478) 268
Chapter 3 Quantum Chaology 271
3.1 Berry, M. V., 1977 'Regular and irregular semiclassical wavefunctions', J. Phys. A 10, 2083-2091 (B64) 275
3.2 Berry, M. V., 1985 'Semiclassical theory of spectral rigidity', Proc. R. Soc. A 400, 229-251 (B140) 284
3.3 Berry, M. V., 1987 'Quantum Chaology' (The Bakerian Lecture), Proc. R. Soc. A 413, 183-198 (B163) 307
3.4 Berry, M. V., 1986 'Riemann's zeta function: a model for quantum chaos?' in Quantum chaos and statistical nuclear physics (eds: T. H. Seligman and H. Nishioka), Springer Lecture Notes in Physics No. 263, 1-17 (B154) 323
3.5 Berry, M. V., 1988 'Semiclassical formula for the number variance of the Riemann zeros', Nonlinearity 1, 399-407 (B175) 340
3.6 Berry, M. V, & Keating, J. P., 1999 'The Riemann Zeros and Eigenvalue Asymptotics', SIAM Review 41, 236-266 (B307) 349
Chapter 4 Asymptotics 381
4.1 Berry, M. V, 1989 'Uniform asymptotic smoothing of Stokes's discontinuities', Proc. R. Soc. A 422, 7-21 (B181) 385
4.2 Berry, M. V., 'Emotional asymptotics' (poem) 2000 (U9) 400
4.3 Berry, M. V., & Howls, C. J., 1991 'Hyperasymptotics for integrals with saddles', Proc. R. Soc. A 434, 657-675 (B223) 401
4.4 Berry, M. V., & Howls, C. J., 1993 Infinity interpreted', Physics World (June), 35-39 (B241) 420
4.5 Berry, M. V., & Howls, C. J., 2015 'Divergent series: taming the tails', in The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, (ed: N. J. Higham) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 634-640 (B482) 425
4.6 Berry, M. V., 1995 'The Riemann-Siegel expansion for the zeta function: high orders and remainders', Proc. R. Soc. A 450, 439-462 (B265) 432
4.7 Berry, M. V, & Keating, J. P., 1992 'A new asymptotic representation for ((Yi +it) and quantum spectral determinants', Proc. R. Soc. A 437, 151-173 (B233) 456
Chapter 5 Superoscillations 479
5.1 Berry, M. V., 1994 'Faster than Fourier', in Quantum Coherence and Reality; in celebration of the 60th Birthday of Yakir Aharonov (eds: J. S. Anandan and J. L. Safko) World Scientific: Singapore, 55-65 (B262) 483
5.2 Berry, M. V., & Shukla, P., 2010 'Typical weak and superweak values', J. Phys. A 43, 354024 (B429) 494
5.3 Berry, M. V., & Shukla, Pragya, 2012 'Pointer supershiffs and superoscillations in weak measurements', J. Phys. A 45, 015301 (B445) 503
Chapter 6 Philosophy 517
6.1 Berry, M. V., 1994 'Asymptotics, singularities and the reduction of theories', Proc. 9th Int. Cong. Logic, Method., and Phil of Sci. IX (eds: D. Prawitz, B. Skyrms and D. Westerståhl), 597-607 (B260) 520
6.2 Berry, M. V., 2002 'Singular Limits', Physics Today (May), 10-11 (B341) 531
6.3 Berry, M. V., 2014 Foreword to Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline by Sergio Chibbaro, Lamberto Rondoni & Angelo Vulpiani, Springer: Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht & London, vii-viii (B474) 533
6.4 Berry, M. V., 2010 Review of 'Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism' by Alisa Bokulich, Brit. J. Phil Sci. 61, 889-895 (B433) 535
Chapter 7 Tributes 543
7.1 Berry, M, V, 1989 Review of Journey into Light: Life and Science of C. V. Raman by G. Venkataraman, Nature 338, 685-686 (B183) 546
7.2 Berry M. V., 1994 'Pancharatnam, virtuoso of the Poincaré sphere: an appreciation, Current Science 67, 220-223 (B257) 548
7.3 Oration for Yakir Aharonov on receiving a Doctor of Science honoris causa, 1997 (U1) 552
7.4 Funeral eulogy for Sir Charles Frank, 1998 (U2) 554
7.5 Berry, M. V., 1998 'Paul Dirac: The purest soul in physics', Physics World 11 (February), 36-40 (B291) 556
7.6 Berry, M. V., 2004 'Benefiting from fractals' (A tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot), Proc. Symp. Pure Mathematics 72.1, 31-33 (B375) 561
7.7 Address on John Ziman Memorial Day, 2005 (U11) 564
7.8 Berry, M. V., & Cornwell, J., 2011 Obituary of Robert Balson Dingle, published online by the Royal Society of Edinburgh: royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/ dingle_robert.pdf (B439) 567
7.9 Address at Balazs Györffy memorial event, 2012 (U3) 569
7.10 Berry, M. V., 2012 Contribution to 'Tribute to Vladimir Arnold' (eds: B. Khesin and S. Tabachnikov), Not. AMS. 59, 396-398 (B452) 572
7.11 Berry, M. V., 2012 'Martin Gutzwiller and his periodic orbits', in The legacy of Martin Gutzwiller, Communs. Swiss Phys. Soc. 37, 27-30 (B447) 576
7.12 Berry, M. V., 2014 A tribute to Frank Olver (1924-2013)', in Analysis and Applications 12 No. 4, ix-x (B472) 580
7.13 Berry M. V., 2014 'Remembering Akira Tonomura, in In Memory of Akira Tonomura: Physicist and Electron Microscopist, (eds: K. Fujikawa and Y. A. Ono), World Scientific: Singapore, 30-32 (B470) 582
7.14 Tribute to Richard Gregory (U12) 585
Chapter 8 Travels 587
8.1 Berry, M. V., 1991 'Heisenberg's Sofa, Bristol University Newsletter (21 March), 8 (B216) 590
8.2 Berry, M. V., 1993 'Visiting Nablus', Bristol University Physics Department occasional newsletter (B248a) 591
8.3 Berry M. V., 1999 'A week in Beirut', Bristol University Newsletter, Vol. 29 No. 8 (28 January) (B303a) 594
8.4 Berry M. V, 2000 'Odessa, little and large', Bristol University Newsletter (6 December), 8 (B323) 597
Chapter 9 Miscellaneous 601
9.1 Berry, M. V., & Shukla, Pragya, 2016 'Curl force dynamics: symmetries, chaos and constants of motion', New J. Phys. 18, 063018 (B486) 604
9.2 Berry M. V., & Geim, A. K., 1997 'Of flying frogs and levitrons', Eur. J. Phys. 18, 307-313 (B285) 615
9.3 Berry, M. V., 1992 Review of 'Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man' by Bryan Appleyard, Physics World (June), 62-63 (B235) 622
9.4 Berry, M. V., 1998 Review of 'Copenhagen' (A play by Michael Frayn), Nature 394, (20 August) 735 (B298) 624
9.5 Berry, M. V., 2011 Review of 'The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World' by David Deutsch, Times Higher Education (31 March), 50-51(B436) 625
9.6 Berry, M. V, 2012 'Editorial: Papers we reject', Proc. R. Soc. A 468, 1 (doi: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0564) (B444) 627
9.7 Berry, M. V., 2013 'Impact and influence: valedictory editorial', Proc. R. Soc. A 469, 20120698 (B455) 628
9.8 Getting a knighthood, 1996 (174) 629
9.9 Wolf Prize acceptance speech, 1998 (U5) 631
9.10 Convocation address (Cornell University), 2000 (U7) 633
9.11 Honorary degree acceptance response (Weizmann Institute), 2003 (U6) 639
9.12 Berry, M. V., 2008 'My (nearly) half-century in Bristol', in 100. A collection of words and images to mark the Centenary of the University of Bristol (ed: Barry Taylor, University of Bristol). (B411) 641
9.13 Berry, M. V., 2004 'Physics for taxi-drivers', Physics World (December), 15 (B374) 644
9.14 Retirement speech, 2008 (U8) 645
9.15 'Night thoughts of a theoretical physicist', 1999 (U10) 648
9.16 Berry, M. V., 2008 'The arcane in the mundane', in Les Déchiffieurs: Voyage en mathématiques (eds: (Jean-François Dars, Annick Lesne & Anne Papillault), Éditions Belin: France, 134-135 (B405) 655
Chapter 10 Awards, honorary degrees, etc. 657
Chapter 11 Publications 661
