Rotations, Quaternions, and Double Groups
This self-contained text presents a consistent description of the geometric and quaternionic treatment of rotation operators, employing methods that lead to a rigorous formulation and offering complete solutions to the many illustrative problems. Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, it begins with chapters covering the fundamentals of symmetries, matrices, and groups and presenting a primer on rotations and rotation matrices. Subsequent chapters explore rotations and angular momentum, tensor bases, the bilinear transformation, projective representations, and the geometry, topology, and algebra of rotations. 336pp. 63 illustrations. 53/8 x 81/2.
Band Theory of Solids
The structure of much of solid-state theory comes directly from group theory, but until now there has been no elementary introduction to the band theory of solids which adopts this approach. This book provides such an introduction, employing only ...
Moses Mendelssohn
Alexander Altmann's acclaimed, wide-ranging biography of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-96) was first published in 1973, but its stature as the definitive biography remains unquestioned. In fact, there has been no subsequent attempt at an intellectual bi...
