What We Are Reading Today: The Standard Model

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Updated 29 August 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: The Standard Model

Authors: Yuval Grossman & Yossi Nir 

The Standard Model is an elegant and extremely successful theory that formulates the laws of fundamental interactions among elementary particles.

This incisive textbook introduces students to the physics of the Standard Model while providing an essential overview of modern particle physics, with a unique emphasis on symmetry principles as the starting point for constructing models.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Rising Sea’ by Ravi Vakil

Updated 15 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Rising Sea’ by Ravi Vakil

Decades ago, Mumford wrote that algebraic geometry “seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics.”

The revolution has now fully come to pass and has fundamentally changed how we think about many fields of mathematics.

This book provides a thorough foundation in the powerful ideas that now shape the landscape, with an informal yet rigorous exposition that builds intuition for the formidable machinery.