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Jacob Bekenstein - Of Gravity, Black Holes and Information - Di Renzo Editore

Black holes are among the strangest denizens of the physicist’s world. Jacob Bekenstein tells here the story of how the thermodynamics of a black hole was discovered by him and Stephen Hawking, following John A. Wheeler’s question about what would happen if a cup of hot tea were dumped into a black hole.  He further describes ramifications of these thermodynamics, such as the mysterious information paradox and the holographic bound, which have deeply influenced theoretical physics in the last twenty years.  These subjects are just some of the many adventures in physics which the author has witnessed and participated in.  He describes the genesis and development of some of them in this book.

Jacob David Bekenstein was born in Mexico City. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1972 and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, and a faculty member and Arnow Professor of Astrophysics at the Ben-Gurion University, Israel before moving in 1990 to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is the Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics. Bekenstein is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and of the World Jewish Academy of Sciences.  He received the first prize of the Gravity Foundation of the USA in 1981, the Rothschild Prize in 1988 and the Israel Prize in 2005.

Projective Relativity, Cosmology and Gravitation

The new book of Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Di Renzo Editore

In this book, Giuseppe Arcidiacono develops the new Special Projective Relativity theory, based on the Luigi Fantappié group and the De Sitter Universe with constant positive curvature, which extends the Einstein Special Relativity theory on a cosmic scale, obtaining a group version of the Big Bang cosmology.

E’ uscito un nuovo libro in inglese dedicato a Ettore Majorana: “Majorana Legacy in Contemporary Physics”, di Ignazio Licata (Di Renzo Editore).

Ettore Majorana (1906-1938) passed through theoretical physics like a meteor. In fact, his official fundamental papers are just nine. They were all written in the short period from 1928 to 1933. They are audacious and strongly beautiful works which impose themselves over and over again on any generation of theoretical physicists as the paradigm of a style able to fuse - by a singular critical thinking - both the attention for the experimental data and the freedom of theoretical reasoning in a mathematical formulation reaching the essential core of the problem.
During the last years, a new kind of interest for Majorana legacy has grown. The widening of theoretical physics’ spheres has favoured an increasing awareness of the deep connection between symmetries and interactions, and a renewed conception of theoretical physics and mathematics relation. How Roger Penrose effectively wrote, the deeper our understanding of physical laws becomes, the more we penetrate into the abstract world of mathematical concepts. Which thing allowed the new generation of theorists to get out new topics from Majorana work and to approach theoretical physics according to what we can define as the Majorana style.
This anthology has been thought not only as an owed celebrative act, but especially as a meeting of researchers on some presently debated aspects in physics in Majorana spirit.

Di Renzo Editore diventa internazionale

Con la pubblicazione di What is Time? What is Space? di Carlo Rovelli e Roman Art, An American’s View di Richard Brilliant, Di Renzo Editore si apre al mercato internazionale.

I libri sono la versione inglese di due best-seller della collana I DIALOGHI, il cui successo si spera di ripetere. Le nuove pubblicazioni sono dirette in particolare al mercato anglosassone e nord-americano e riguarderanno soprattutto i dialoghi della sezione scienza. Tra questi Dennis Sciama, Jacob Bekenstein e Federico Capasso, che dovrebbero arrivare alle stampe tra il settembre o l’ottobre prossimo.

Non si tratta di una novità per Di Renzo Editore che, considerata la grande mole di autori stranieri di spicco, aveva già tentato l’esperimento con il libro di Paul Davies, Un solo universo o infiniti universi?, le cui versioni inglese e italiana avevano visto la luce in contemporanea.

In programma anche la traduzione di un'opera di Giuseppe Arcidiacono (Projective Relativity Cosmology and Gravitation), autore di spicco della collana “Arcobaleno”.