cover image Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

A. Zee, Anthony Zee. Collier Books, $9.95 (322pp) ISBN 978-0-02-040911-3

``Zee's exposition of the intuitive use by modern theoretical physicists of the concept of symmetry . . . in order to fathom nature's laws is superb scientific reading,'' lauded PW , warning that this is challenging material even for initiates. (Jan.)