Geometry and Light

Geometry and LightThe science of invisibility combines two of physics' greatest concepts: Einstein's general relativity and Maxwell's principles of electromagnetism. Recent years have witnessed major breakthroughs in the area, and the authors of this volume Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas Philbin of Scotland's University of St. Andrews have been active in the transformation of invisibility from fiction into science. Their work on designing invisibility devices is based on

direct language and enhanced with many research problems

Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome

and the National Science Foundation

Some of it is printed here for the first time

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the geometry of a transformation group

provide a readily understandable study of "wave mechanics

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She begins with the basics

Requiring only a modest mathematical background

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