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Principles of Optics: 60th Anniversary Edition

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Principles of Optics is one of the most highly cited and most influential physics books ever published, and one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this remarkable book's first publication, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted with a special foreword by Sir Peter Knight. The seventh edition was the first thorough revision and expansion of this definitive text. Amongst the material introduced in the seventh edition is a section on CAT scans, a chapter on scattering from inhomogeneous media, including an account of the principles of diffraction tomography, an account of scattering from periodic potentials, and a section on the so-called Rayleigh–Sommerfield diffraction theory. This expansive and timeless book continues to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in all areas of optics. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 7th edition (February 6, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 992 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1108477437


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 37


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.8 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.75 x 9.75 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #648,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #95 in Optics for Physics #3,516 in Science & Mathematics


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  • A Must
No better book on the matter
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023 by Ezra

  • A Classic
Born and Wolfe is a classic of Optics. Not a text for the novice.
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021 by Katie Buckley

  • Physics is good, equations in eBook version are hard to read
The physics in this book is, sort of, Bible, although a little bit of outdated in some aspects. The problem is the display of equations in the eBook version. The first figure is the screenshot of a page of eBook version of the book, and the second figure is the same page of the same book shown in the "LookInside" preview in the Amazon webpage. It is very difficult to follow the equations with this size. Each time I try to see the equations, I need to magnify in one way or another. I contacted Amazon support, and was told that magnifying is the only solution for now. I hope this is fixed and I can download a version with normal size equation display. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021 by Hiroaki Yamamoto Hiroaki Yamamoto

  • Equations are unreadable
The equations do not scale with font size and are natively too small to read on my iPad. I highly recommend you do not buy this book.
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2023 by Climbing Shoes

  • very small formula font size in book
I don't know why the book's formula font size is tiny!
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2022 by hao wang

  • Don't buy the e-book version
The equations are tiny and unreadable. Maybe you can zoom in, maybe you can't. It makes the book useless. I wish I could get my money back.
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021 by Brad Osgood

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