Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries
Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998.Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945-1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old.The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
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Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries
Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998.Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945-1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old.The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
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Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries

Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries

by Chen Ning Yang
Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries

Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries

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Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998.Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945-1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old.The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.

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ISBN-13: 9789814449014
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/24/2013
Pages: 396
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

[71d] Speech About the Great Wall 1

Commentary 1

[A71d] C. N. Yang Discusses Physics in People's Republic of China 2

Commentary 5

[72d] A de Gaulle-Like Trip 6

Commentary 7

[77g] Condition of Self-Duality for SU(2) Gauge Fields on Euclidean Four-Dimensional Space 9

Commentary 11

[78a] Generalization of Dirac's Monopole to SU2 Gauge Fields 12

Commentary 20

[79d] Einstein and the Physics of the Future Panel Discussion 21

Commentary 34

[80d] Does Violation of Microscopic Time-Reversal Invariance Lead to the. Possibility of Entropy Decrease? (with C. P. Yang) 36

Commentary 42

[82c] Joseph Mayer and Statistical Mechanics 43

Commentary 46

[82e] Flux Quantization, A Personal Reminiscence 47

Commentary 51

[82g] The Discrete Symmetries P, T and C 52

Commentary 65

[83g] Gauge Fields, Electromagnetism and the Bohm-Aharonov Effect 66

Commentary 70

[85g] Spin of Electrons, Hadrons and Nuclei (with T. T. Chou) 72

Commentary 77

[85j] Hermann Weyl's Contribution to Physics 78

Commentary 92

[86c] Square Root of Minus One, Complex Phases and Erwin Schrodinger 94

Commentary 105

[87a] Generalization of Sturm-Liouville Theory to a System of Ordinary Differential Equations with Dirac Type Spectrum 106

Commentary 117

[87b] C. Y Chao, Pair Creation and Pair Annihilation (with B. A. Li) 119

Commentary 129

[88b] A One-Dimensional N Fermion Problem with Factorized S Matrix (with C. H. Gu) 130

Commentary 141

[88d] Journey Through Statistical Mechanics 142

Commentary 146

[89c] Modern Physics and Warm Friendship 147

Commentary 153

[90b] SO4 Symmetry in a Hubbard Model (with S. C. Zhang) 154

Commentary 161

[90e] Symmetry and Physics 162 Commentary 184

[91e] S. S. Chern and I 185

Commentary 188

[92c] Reflections on the Development of Theoretical Physics 189

Commentary 196

[93b]. Deng Jiaxian 197

Commentary 204

[95b] Julian Schwinger 205

Commentary 210

[95d] Path Crossings with Lars Onsager 211

Commentary 212

[97d] Exact Solution of the Vibration Problem for the Carbon-60 Molecule (with T. T. Chou) 213

Commentary 220

[97f] Father and I 221

Commentary 239

[99c] Speech After Banquet 240

[A99j] Writeup Upon Hearing of Mills' Death 242

Commentary 242

[01f] Enrico Fermi 243

Commentary 246

[01g] Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) 248

Commentary 253

[02c] Banquet Speech, June 2002 254

Commentary 255

[02i] Thematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Theoretical Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase Factor 256

Commentary 265

[04c] Gauge Invariance and Interactions 267

Commentary 271

[05b] Albert Einstein: Opportunity and Perception 272

Commentary 279

[06b] The Klein-Nishina Formula & Quantum Electrodynamics 281

Commentary 285

[08d] Pseudopotential Method and Dilute Hard "Sphere" Bose Gas in Dimensions 2, 4 and 5 286

Commentary 289

[09f ] Ground State of Fermions in a ID Trap with S Function Interaction 290

Commentary 292

[10a] Banquet Speech at the Singapore Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann on His 80th Birthday 295

Commentary 295

[10e] Spin 1/2 Fermions in ID Harmonic Trap with Repulsive Delta Function Interparticle Interaction (with Z.-Q. Ma) 296

Commentary 299

[10h] One-Dimensional w-Component Fermions and Bosons with Repulsive Delta Function Interaction (with Y. Z. You) 300

Commentary 302

[11a] Quantum Numbers, Chern Classes, and a Bodhisattva 304

Commentary 306

[11b] My Experience as a Student and Researcher 307

Commentary 325

[12a] Fermi's β-Decay Theory 326

[12d] Topology and Gauge Theory in Physics 333

Commentary 341

[12f] On Reaching Age Ninety 342

Postscript 343

Index of Names in the Commentaries 345

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