Charging that the courses he has taught and papers he has written during his 45 years of research have not received the attention they deserve, Pradhan (Institute of Physics, Bhuganeswar, India) recasts his findings and ideas in book form. He takes Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light as an organizing principle to discuss the wave nature and the particle nature of light, coherent properties of light, symmetries of the electromagnetic field and conservation laws, local symmetries and interactions of photons, and the photon as a composite particle. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
