Principles of optics;: Electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light,

by Max Born, Emil Wolf

Paperback

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks

808 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Max Born (was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe).

Reviews

[T Dodson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The information was good, but it was scattered. Many times a concept would be here or there and sometimes as different variables in different chapters. The math was also not well explained and unnecessarily heady.

[Fred · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough treatment of optics from Maxwell's equation. My only wish is that they had practice problems. A necessary reference text for anyone working optics.

[psb · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is the standard.

One of the few books with septuple integrals.

[Abhi]

knowledgwe

[Ysabelleleanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

awesome!

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i like it

[Veronika Lapina · Rating 5 out of 5]

insides on diffraction as a theoretical concept, really might help one to deal with the way new materialist analysis employs diffractive reading