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From Our List of Top Titles
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BOOKS AND JOURNALS
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 FROM ORDER TO CHAOS II
Essays: Critical, Chaotic and Otherwise
by Leo P Kadanoff (University of Chicago)
“Leo’s combination of verve, frankness and insight makes this a very good read.”
P W Anderson, Princeton University
“Publication of this volume will be very useful, especially for young readers. The papers disseminated over many journals acquire a new quality by being collected together. Readers not only can see a result in its final form, but also can trace its evolution.”
J Fluid Mechanics
A collection of reviews, essay columns and commentaries of Leo P Kadanoff, a theoretical physicist, this book aims to explain science in itself, its strategy and tactics, as well as the history of some of its important developments. A wide range of topics, from matter physics, hydrodynamics and applied mathematics to national policy covering urban economic and social development, are discussed, and a collection of well-crafted essays on computational science concludes the book. In a not-tootechnical style of writing, this book will be of as much interest to the average reader, as to physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists.
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 INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM COMPUTERS
by Gennady P Berman, Gary D Doolen, Ronnie Mainieri
(Los Alamos National Laboratory),
& Valdimir I Tsifrinovich (Polytechnic University, New York)
This book seeks to explain the amazing capabilities of quantum computers, and covers a broad range of topics such as Shor‘s algorithm for prime factorization, algorithms for quantum logic gates, physical implementations of quantum logic gates in ion traps and in spin chains, the simplest schemes for quantum error correction, and numerical simulations of dynamical behavior of the quantum Control-Not gate. An overview of some basic elements of computer science is presented, including the Turing machine, Boolean algebra, and the logic gates. This comprehensive book will appeal to computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists interested in quantum computing.
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 QUARKS AND GLUONS
A Century of Particle Charges
by M Y Han (Duke University)
In this book, major developments in atomic, nuclear, particle and quark physics over the past one hundred years are presented in a style that is both accessible to the layperson and of value to the expert. It provides a brief history of particles, charting the discovery of electrons and photons, antimatter, atomic nuclei, strong and weak forces, and quarks and gluons. In particular, it traces the concept of ”conserved charges,“ a phenomenon that is consistently manifested in each of these milestone developments in modern physics.
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 DISCOVERIES IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 2
Edited by Shain-Dow Kung
(The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) and,
Shang-Fa Yang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
The 19 chapters in this second volume of the series Discoveries in Plant Biology describe discoveries which contribute to the foundations of modern plant biology. The contributors, many of whom personally lit the way, bring readers back in time as if on a journey to retrace the paths and rethink the ideas they followed. These guided tours on how to decipher the natural laws will lead to an appreciation of the development of each field from simple concepts to an advanced multidisciplinary field of today. This volume will be of great interest to botanists, biochemists, plant physiologists and geneticists, and of general interest to those who are still fascinated by how discoveries are made.
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 JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
Managing Editors:
Chitat Chong (National University of Singapore),
Theodore A Siaman (University of California, Berkeley),
Hugh Woodin (University of California, Berkeley)
The Journal of Mathematical Logic provides an important forum for the communication of original contributions in all areas of mathematical logic and its application. It aims at publishing papers at the highest level of mathematical creativity and sophistication. It is a quarterly journal which intends to represent the most important and innovative developments in the subject.
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