An Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she has been active in many aspects of materials research with particular emphasis on carbon science including nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, but also including bismuth nanowires and other materials systems relevant to low dimensional thermoelectricity. in Physics from the University of Chicago, in 1958. The authors develop those parts of the theory of groups which are interesting for physicists, from chapter to chapter offering nearly at any step one or more informative application.” (G.

“It is highly welcomed because of its well-thought structuring and the plenty of non-trivial examples. Pashaev, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2010 i) This is why the book is very useful for anyone interested in applications of group theory to the wide range of condensed matter phenomena.” (Oktay K. Specific to this book is the feature that every abstract theoretical group concept is introduced and applied in a concrete physical way. … Every chapter of the book finishes with several selected problems. “The goal of the book under review is to teach group theory in close connection to applications. This is a very good book for its target audience.” (W. has exercises at the end of each chapter and an extensive set of appendices. The material is meant for Electrical Engineering and Physics students at the graduate level …. van Vleck in the 1950s and much of the material was presented in courses by the authors over the last three decades. originates from lectures by Charles Kittel and J. Masters, Optics and Photonics News, July/August, 2009) … the book develops all of the relevant mathematics (linear algebra) and the necessary physics (quantum mechanics), it is eminently suitable to a wide audience in physics, chemistry and materials science.' (Barry R. 'This textbook is based on the authors’ pedagogical experience during their 30 years at MIT.

' (Volker Heine, Physics Today, November, 2008) … The book can be warmly recommended to students and researchers in solid-state physics, either to serve as a text for an advanced lecture course or for individual study …. Very much a graduate text or specialist monograph, the book covers a wealth of applications across solid-state physics. 'It was developed for a graduate course taught mostly by Millie Dresselhaus at MIT for more than 30 years, with many revisions of lecture notes. The text and problem sets have proved a useful springboard for the application of the basic material presented here to topics in semiconductor physics, and the physics of carbon-based nanostructures. Essential problem sets between the chapters also aid the retention of the new material and for the consolidation of material learned in previous chapters. From there, each chapter develops new theory while introducing applications so that the students can best retain new concepts, build on concepts learned the previous week, and see interrelations between topics as presented. For this reason, the theoretical background is confined to the first 4 introductory chapters (6-8 classroom hours). The approach centers on the conviction that teaching group theory in close connection with applications helps students to learn, understand and use it for their own needs. This concise and class-tested book has been pedagogically tailored over 30 years MIT and 2 years at the University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil. The beauty and strength of group theory resides in the transformation of many complex symmetry operations into a very simple linear algebra. Every process in physics is governed by selection rules that are the consequence of symmetry requirements.

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