物理学中的群论导论，ISBN：9787506273046，作者：康威尔

Now inits 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining thekey features of the 6th edition, the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation, theory, and examples. Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications, the book's improved focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers and well into their professions. Some notable enhancements include more refined and focused content in important topics, improved organization, updated notations, extensive explanations and intuitive exercise sets, a wider range of problem solutions, improvement in the placement, and a wider range of difficulty of exercises. Revised and updated version of the leading text in mathematical physics Focuses on problem-solving skills and active learning, offering numerous chapter problems Clearly identified definitions, theorems, and proofs promote clarity and understanding New to this edition: Improved modular chapters New up-to-date examples More intuitive explanations

本书讲述了印度裔美国天体物理学家、诺贝尔物理学奖得主钱德拉塞卡（1910-1995）的故事。本书的写法让读者看到了一个尽可能接近原貌的钱德拉。 传记作者卡迈什瓦尔？瓦利教授，同为印度裔，是钱德拉的后辈和崇拜者，他怀着钦佩的心情多次访问钱德拉。两人进行过广博而发人深思的对话，依据这些对话以及钱德拉的论文、信件，瓦利运用风趣流畅的手笔，追踪钱德拉一生各个时期的足迹和轶事，精彩内容层出不穷。传记介绍了钱德拉如何在其叔父、诺贝尔奖得主拉曼的影响下，从小立志献身科学。又详尽披露出钱德拉与导师爱丁顿就白矮星理论展开的激烈争论。因遭到爱丁顿的极力否定，“钱德拉塞卡极限”（白矮星的恒星质量上限）被认为是错误的而遭摒弃，直到多年后才得到公认，这是鲜为人知的故事。传记还讲述了钱德拉奖《天体物理学杂志》从一本校级刊物发展成世界著名学术刊物的经过，以及与拉莉莎经过6年飞鸿传情，虽有波折终成眷属的动人故事。 钱德拉毕生从事科学研究，期间遭遇种族歧视、讥笑嘲讽等种种困难，但这些都没有令他放弃，他的坚持令人动容，他是一位隐秘而才华横溢的科学家。

Well-organized text designed to complement graduate-level physics texts in classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, and quantum mec hanics. Topics include theory of vector spaces, analytic function theory, Green's function method of solving differential and partial differential equations, theory of groups, more. Many problems, suggestions for further reading. This textbook is designed to complement graduate-level physics texts in classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, and quantum mechanics. Organized around the central concept of a vector space, the book includes numerous physical applications in the body of the text as well as many problems of a physical nature. It is also one of the purposes of this book to introduce the physicist to the language and style of mathematics as well as the content of those particular subjects with contemporary relevance in physics. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to the mathematics of classical physics. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 — the backbone of the book — cover the theory of vector spaces. Chapter 6 covers analytic function theory. In chapters 7, 8, and 9 the authors take up several important techniques of theoretical physics — the Green's function method of solving differential and partial differential equations, and the theory of integral equations. Chapter 10 introduces the theory of groups. The authors have included a large selection of problems at the end of each chapter, some illustrating or extending mathematical points, others stressing physical application of techniques developed in the text. Essentially self-contained, the book assumes only the standard undergraduate preparation in physics and mathematics, i.e. intermediate mechanics, electricity and magnetism, introductory quantum mechanics, advanced calculus and differential equations. The text may be easily adapted for a one-semester course at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level.