
Geoffrey Chew: Architect Of The Bootstrap
ARCHITECT OF THE BOOTSTRAP
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 23. December 2021
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-981-12-1982-5 (ISBN)
Description
This special volume is dedicated to Geoffrey Chew who passed away on April 12, 2019, at age 94. He is best known as the architect and passionate champion of the bootstrap concept, sometimes called nuclear democracy. His work influenced generations of particle physicists. His passion for physics was an inspiration for his many students and associates. From the Chew-Low theory for meson-nucleon scattering to Analytic S-Matrix, Regge Poles, and Bootstrap principle, his originality left its mark in ways that continue to the present. With contributions from Chew's former collaborators, students, and friends, the book will cover various facets of his life and impact on physics.Contributors include Steven Weinberg, Steven Frautschi, Gabriele Veneziano, Peter Landshoff, Carl Rosenzweig, Basarab Nicolescu, William Frazer, David Gross, John Schwartz, Ling-Lie Chau, Chung-I Tan, Richard Brower, Carleton DeTar, R Shankar, David Kaiser, Fritjof Capra, and others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-12-1982-5 (9789811219825)
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Editor
Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden
Boston Univ, Usa
Univ Of Utah, Usa
Brown Univ, Usa
Ntu, S'pore