Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars

With this book, Elliott Lieb joins his peers Hermann Weyl and Chen Ning Yang. Weyl''s Selecta was published in 1956, Yang''s Selected Papers in 1983. Lieb''s "Selecta", like its predecessors, gives us the essence of a great mathema­ tical physicist concentrated into one convenient volume. Weyl, Yang and Lieb have much more in common than the accident of this manner of publication. They have in com...